Coronavirus diary, Wednesday 20 May

The government's non stop efforts to feed us information on what they are doing to keep us safe remind me of the fable of the little boy who cried wolf. Not because the information we are being given is false, although some of it is suspect, but because it has become boring through constant repetition.
We need to be kept up to date on what the government wants, or tells, us to do, but do we need it hour by hour? 

Surely the time has come to drop the talk-talk show, the daily briefing with government ministers and health and 'modelling' experts standing solemnly at the pedestal, hands grasping the lectern, reading from scripts with the latest facts, figures, assumption and plans.This has now moved on to questions from the public as well as the media which the briefers usually sidestep.

Matt Hancock: hyperbole

Health Secretary for England Matt Hancock can bore for Britain. He takes hyperbole to an art form to to convince us that all his plans are going ahead without a hitch.

The Prime Minister, no great orator, is looking uncomfortable without a script, being hard pressed at PM Question Time by an increasingly bold opposition, set free from their embarrassingly incompetent former leader.

The press is adding to the boredom - for me, at least - by concentrating almost exclusively on coronavirus, page after page. BBC television has the same obsession.

Give us more varied, interesting, accurate news or, like the little boy who cried wolf, we will start to doubt everything.