Downing Street forced to wade in as lockdown confusion grows.

“The virus does not stop on your front garden.”

Forced to backtrack after public backlash.

It was authoritarianism all along.

Masks must be worn where people cannot maintain safe social distancing.

“Might trigger violence.”

“It reminds me in its tendency to get longer and louder and almost more hysterical, of the applause after a speech by Nicolae Ceausescu.”

Hong Kong Phoenix TV is a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party.