News from space

If the battlefield of the new politics is social media, the BBC now has much better correspondents on the frontline. They became sharper observers during the election campaign, and it's continuing. It was good to see the Twitter cry of anguish from within the UK Civil Service make the screen soon after Boris Johnson's claim that Dominic Cummings had done nothing wrong; BBC spotters tracked the unhappy Bishops and angry behavioural scientists for R4 bulletins; and Twitter provided guides to the public unhappiness of backbench Tory MPs.

But so far, the BBC has underplayed one key barometer of pressure on Mr Johnson and Mr Cummings. Surely someone should have read out the headline in the Mail - "What planet are they on ?" - on the Today Programme by now ?