From Monday, pub gardens, indoor gyms, hair salons, zoos and many other forgotten pleasures reopen across England. It is a moment to be savored.
But it comes at the end of what’s been an unusually difficult week for Johnson’s government and its celebrated vaccine program. The rollout has been, without question, the biggest success enjoyed by Johnson’s government during the crisis. The fact it compares so favorably to post-Brexit Britain’s European neighbors — many of which are re-imposing restrictions as the UK eases them — is an added bonus.