No, that's not the UK Cabinet trying to figure out what to do... it's the Fates (as portrayed in the wonderful Disney movie Hercules) measuring out what should happen next...
In fact, you'd probably be better off trusting the latter than the former...
You want an example of the UK government's ability to still send mixed messages and sow confusion?
Travel to Greece has not been banned but we are being told not to go... Add that to being told you can now mix with people indoors but you are advised not to do it...
We've had to put up with this kind of thing right the way through 2020 (see this blog for An Odyssey in the Year of the Plague – a day-by-day account from March through to October last year) and we're still having to put up with it in 2021.
Those with essential reasons will – at the moment – be allowed to go to Greece. It's essential for me to go to Ithaca. And I feel increasingly that it's essential for me to get out of the UK for a while at least...
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