IF we continue to be good and obedient citizens, Boris Johnson says we might be allowed to kiss and embrace our family and friends from June 21. When it comes to “normal family gatherings where we can hug our loved ones”, Nicola Sturgeon is vaguer, possibly in late June, or maybe over the summer, she says. I treat such pronouncements with the contempt they merit. How dare the state prohibit us from from demonstrating physical affection? Love is the most essential requirement for human wellbeing and confidence. Without it, we inhabit a sad, lonely half-existence. What never-ending emergency – surely a contradiction in terms? – is graver than a life deprived of love and human contact?