PETER HITCHENS: Yet another slice of our happiness is gone for ever with the closure of a baker's shop during the Covid panic

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

In an age of poncy, expensive sourdough bread as dense as a black hole, and of steam-baked supermarket loaves, it is good and rare to find proper English bread, baked as it should be. 

Few delicacies in the world beat the taste of new white bread spread with salted butter. Where I live, in an ancient city where progress is treated with proper suspicion, we have for many years still been able to do this.

We also still have the remnants of a real...