Those of you outside these shores may not be aware that our government is going to remove virtually all of the remaining pandemic restrictions next Monday in England – the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland make their own decisions on this. Whilst I would normally welcome the removal of government restrictions on what we do, I am apprehensive about this one. It comes at a time when daily infection rates are increasing rapidly, and are at their highest level since February, so in my view it is questionable if now is the right time to do this. Given that their own predictions are that those daily rates could rise from yesterday’s level of 34k to more than 100k over the summer, and given that our esteemed Prime Minister has been quoted as saying that he would be happy to ‘let the bodies pile up’ if that were…