THERE is a steadily growing groundswell of opinion in this country that refuses to diminish or be silenced. I hope I may claim to have been a pioneer.

O TEMPORA! O mores! One of the most senior figures in the Civil Service, Sir Philip Rutnam, calls a press conference to denounce his Minister, in this case the Home Secretary herself. How times have changed from when civil servants were anonymous and Ministers took the flak when things went wrong.

IT IS TIME that political interference with the police and the CPS ceased. One might have thought that after the ludicrous Operation Midland , the lesson had been learned.

I have been grateful for the restrained response of this government towards the coronavirus outbreak but the new proposal to lock down every single person over the age of 70 for three months, regardless of health and strength, seems woefully lacking in logic.

THIS is a story of two businesses and of two very different approaches to our current exigencies.The first concerns my local laundry CleanCall, which devised a means to keep going and contributing to the economy.

SO, BORIS, where is your land of liberty now? Where is proportionality and reason?

I'M QUITE enjoying this lockdown but I know just how blessed I am. I actively like solitude. I have the moors on my doorstep, a large garden, a job which I can do from home, a dependable pension, good health and a keyworker neighbour who can drop off fresh milk, bread and veg.

OH, FOR pity's sake! Death is stalking the country, the NHS is over-run, the economy is crashing on a seismic scale but Ofcom is pontificating about broadcaster Piers Morgan's mimicry of a Chinese accent calling it "offensive and racist". Get a life, dears!

BACK ON Wednesday, March 18, I wrote that as the overwhelming majority of people who were dying were reported as having underlying health conditions it would make sense to lock down anybody with such a condition and let the rest of us get on with keeping the economy and the volunteer effort going.

BY AND large I resist the temptation to roar at my TV screen but a few days ago, I did just that, when the tearful sister of twins who had died from the virus commented that she could not even be with her parents. Why the hell not? I shouted, feeling close to tears myself.

AT LAST there appears to be some momentum gathering behind what I have been saying for weeks: that it is wrong to lock down people on the grounds of age alone.

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I CAN'T help feeling that this is all a long-delayed return to normal. I know the lockdown feels abnormal, and I suppose it is, in that we've never seen anything like it before. But beyond that, I have a powerful sense that normal relations have merely been resumed; the age-old see-saw relationship between man and planet re-established.

I'VE NEVER seen or heard anything like it. Or rather, NOT heard. I was on the green roof of London: Kite Hill, the highest spot on Hampstead Heath, and summit of my daily permitted exercise routine.

THE RISKS of lockdown are threatening to become greater than the risk of catching the coronavirus.The blunt instrument of social and economic shutdown may soon begin to bludgeon more people to death than the microscopic bug it is meant to protect us from.

SIX WEEKS into lockdown and every day brings fresh headlines and behaviour you simply couldn't and wouldn't have predicted when you went to bed the night before.