The Telegraph.

whats going to happen today!

We're not allowed now to say boo to a goose. It's full lockdown or you're immoral.

The Labour Party is pretty much all-Hencested and very little Hartleyport.

The only thing that's left now is for Chris Whitty to accompany us on visits to the toilet.

We're not in a position where we're tackling the Black Death.

We're tackling something that in a serious way affects a small number of people.

We have liftoff.

And welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson.

Hello. And me Liam Halligan. It's a new year, a new day, a new dawn as Nina Simone wants almost sang.

But we're not feeling good. Not with the UK back in national lockdown until March at the earliest.

Not with businesses shuttered and millions of us marooned at home.

Not with the kids prevented from going back to school.

With all the damage that does to their young lives, their development and life chances.

And not with the lockdown costing the equivalent of 18 billion pounds a month.

That's 18, followed by 9.0's, to say nothing of the costs in terms of human anguish.

What were your thoughts, Alison, on Monday night as Boris announced another national lockdown?

Did you drop your gin and tonic?

You know me so well. In fact, I was going to do dry January, but of course,

everyone's had the shortest dry January in history because once we got that news,

we thought, right, how many bottles of red wine have we got in?

It was dry. That was it. It was dry.

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