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and Alva Ray to talk about schools and MPs going back and then you ask us about the killing

of George Floyd. Some schools in England have reopened today, which is Monday, for the purpose of you not

listening to this on the day it's coming out for year one in year six.

As the government in England begins its kind of initial programming of reopening

while people who are shielding because they're in an at-risk group have been

told that they can go outside and you know

rejoined the rest of the population.

I don't know about anyone else but the thing I'm finding

particularly strange about covering this bit of the coronavirus response is this feeling of

watching something which is like obviously a mistake obviously not going to work out that well, but happening incredibly slowly.

And so obviously that was kind of, that was basically true of a lot of the cuts from 2010 on, but I guess with an even more kind of surrealness because it really doesn't

feel like anyone actually believes any of this is necessarily that good an idea.

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