Parents who fail to send their children back to school worrying about coronavirus infection face hefty fines. But it has been reported that parents are in for an even costlier consequence – they could see themselves downsized quite disproportionately.

The next Conservative manifesto will also restore public trust, boost affordable housing, reinstate Public Health England, bring people back from the dead (Thatcher) and James Cleverly's and Priti Patel's favourite: make Ben and Jerry's ice cream less expensive.

Pretty Pathetic has been invited to a  “thank you” banquet feast hosted by the ghost of Edward Colston, whose statue was toppled down in Bristol in the midst of a protest that she called “utterly disgraceful”.