Usually when I write this column I’m sat in my office in Salford looking at the tower blocks sprouting from the Manchester skyline. Today, I’m perched on the corner of the bed in the spare room, with my laptop balanced on a chest of drawers, waiting for Amazon to deliver a chair and desk.

This is just one small example of the changes that the coronavirus has already brought into our lives.

Amid the imperative to keep us all safe and the surreal, cinematic talk of lockdowns and self-isolation, we are all trying to get on with business as best we can, despite the challenges of working from home. Shakespeare is said to have written King Lear while quarantined from the plague, but he didn’t have the internet to distract him.

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