PETER HITCHENS: The panic-makers long for another shutdown... but it won���t do any good

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

You can almost hear the BBC presenters drooling at the prospect of yet another of the shutdowns they long for and enjoy so much. 

Reports of a new variant of Covid, combined with the frenzy of medical repression on the Continent, have filled them with hope that England can once again be closed down for Christmas.

Once again, they have begun moving the supposedly menacing figures of ���cases��� (positive tests resulting from endless state-sponso...