EDLINES

Writing this as Melbourne enters six weeks of lockdown, I send my best wishes to readers there, although of course by the time you read this anything could have happened and us lot in Sydney may be on our way to joining you under maximum restrictions.

Second time around it’s harder to find the silver linings of such an enforced staycation, especially for those who have little or no work to do and the permanent gut-thup of financial worry. When the pandemic first began, all those