Under lockdown, we thrived on pointing the finger at rule-breakers. What now? | Joel Golby

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Under lockdown, we thrived on pointing the finger at rule-breakers. What now? | Joel Golby
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As Britons sip their officially sanctioned pints, the mean-spirited mood of the nation is lifting, says author Joel Golby

And then someone took phone footage ofin the evening – streets filled, bar crowds chattering, the giddy, thrilling feeling that comes as cool night air falls over a warm crowd, a taste of the old world transported to the new – and that was that. The exact point the coronadiscourse split in two. On one side: “Wouldn’t it be good to light a cigarette on Dean Street and puff it joyously into the ink-black sky?” On the other: “Well, I hope any group larger than six is all from the same household.

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