“Perhaps we should consider a Christmas ‘circuit-breaker’. A 24-hour lifting of restrictions on gatherings and celebrations, a break in the war on Covid, just like the pause in the First World War on the Western Front in 1914, when the British and German troops laid down their guns and met in no man’s land to celebrate Christmas.”
He added: “Couldn’t we allow for one day of normality in the midst of our relentless war against the virus?” The Bishop of Paisley has called for a one day ceasefire … with Covid-19.