A year ago today, you probably didn’t own as many tracksuits. You still had Pret receipts in your purse and holiday plans in your diary. Captain Tom Moore was an unknown Bedfordshire nonagenarian, and you had never heard the term Oxford AstraZeneca. All of this would rapidly change.
Below, a reminder of all the things that captured the nation’s attention in our 12 months in lockdown.
March 2020
On 16 March Matt Hancock told the Commons that “all unnecessary social contact must ease”. A week later, Boris Johnson decreed that we “must” stay at home. We spent what was left of the month ricocheting between the surreal and upsetting daily coronavirus briefings, and the surreal and upsetting