PETER HITCHENS: After two years of mass hysteria, are we finally coming to our senses?

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column

Is Britain recovering its senses? I am wary of optimism, and this may be like one of those brief thaws they had in Communist Russia, before clamping down again even harder.

Or is it like the moment in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe where the snow begins to melt and the wicked witch starts to lose her power?

Look at all these amazing things. For the first time in 21 months the Cabinet considered the damage to society, the economy and human c...