I'm writing this on the hottest day of the year so far. It's even too hot to sit outside. Oddly, I've just had an email from a well-known travel company asking which exciting, bustling city break we would like to visit or whether we would prefer a sun-drenched beach – all for half price...

It is as if nothing has changed when everything has. And now we have another brand-new three-word slogan: ‘Hands. Face. Space'.