The prime minister has shown that he is manifestly unsuited to the responsibility of leading the nation, writes Ann Holden. Plus letters from Jane Barrett, Phil Tate, Patricia Baker-Cassidy and Claude Scott
My friend died in January 2021, a few days after testing positive for Covid. He spent the last 12 months of his life in his nursing home more or less in solitary confinement, mostly using Skype to contact family and friends. He was ill and confused, and I’ll never really know if he understood why people had stopped visiting him. I hope he did not think he’d been abandoned. He died in his room in the early hours. I was informed by telephone. After nearly 40 years of friendship, we were unable to say goodbye.
We don’t know how Covid got into his nursing home and infected him – only that it was not introduced by a visitor, because there were none. We complied with Boris Johnson’s rules to keep my friend and others safe, in the hope that we could meet again normally.
