To answer the question posed by our op. Yes Eve it looks like it is easing a little. It had to, after the draconian measure that we have all(nearly all that is) had to endure, or we really were in the watsit. That would have no doubt pleased some of our less charitable contributors and their handlers/controllers, as we can see by the clumsy grasping of any tenuous snippet to warp into a denigration of Britain. We will get there despite them, but unfortunately the gainsayers will also likely benefit from our efforts, despite making no positive contribution to the cause whatsoever.