PETER HITCHENS: Don't rage about No 10's party ��� be angry that you couldn't enjoy one too

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

To save Alexander Johnson���s face, we must all cover our faces. I won���t repeat here all the many objections I have made before to compulsory masking, or explain yet again why these measures are of doubtful value, to put it mildly.

It is the motivation for them, an obvious attempt to change the subject away from Partygate, which irks me this time round. But it is also the weird upside-down, inside-out public and media reaction to all this folly...