Okay, clickbaity headline aside, lockdown has been disproportionately hard on certain groups. Anyone without a garden, large families cooped in umpteenth storey flats, the elderly and those ‘shielding’, but it’s also been rubbish for couples who don’t live together.

Forbade by law from even meeting for weeks on end, couples dating can now orbit within two metres and outside of their partner, but that’s it. Unless you’re Mr Tickle you can’t even hold hands… Until now.

Last night’s daily briefing from 10 Downing Street totally proved our Tuesday story to be nonsense (Now They’re Saying Pubs Might Reopen In Less Than A Fortnight! Today’s Crunch Cabinet Meeting To Decide… proving how stupid it is to try and predict things!) but it also unlocked an unexpected concession to those who live alone.

If you live alone, then from Saturday you can form a ‘bubble’ with one other household. The new rules mean that you can, in effect, now become a part of that household, you don’t have to socially distance yourselves and you can be indoors together and stay overnight. Sex is back on the menu.

For anyone single, this doesn’t mean firing up the Tinder account yet, though, as the bubbles are unique and you can’t change them, say, every night. That would be literally the opposite of the point!

And it’s not just good news for anyone itching for intimacy, this is brilliant for a host of others. Lonely grandparents living alone can now see their grandchildren again, grownup kids living alone can see their parents again.

While the government were keen to point out that this doesn’t apply to anyone who is vulnerable or shielding, We now can’t wait until we can all see each other again, but this is a step toward returning to normal, and acknowledges the unique pressures that lockdown has wrought on certain groups.

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