Kate Hawkesby: It would be premature to go back to red

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 10, 2022 · 3m

So if the rumours are true, I personally don’t think they are, today we go into a red light.

I first heard this rumour last Friday. A worried retailer told my husband he’d heard from ‘someone very reliable’ (isn’t it always?) that Monday was going to see an announcement of a red light. I was immediately suspicious. It reminded me of all those times over the past couple of years when rumours ran rife that we’d be going into a lockdown, because they’d heard it from ‘a reputable source’.

The source was always someone’s friend or partner who worked ‘deep inside the Beehive’, ‘so they knew’.

This…