Nevertheless, all too frequently, we seem ready to discard this unique national asset in favour of speed, economy and short-term administrative convenience.

They are not battles about economics or administrative convenience.

After all, time limits are really only there for administrative convenience.

Logic has been replaced by administrative convenience and huge swathes of the country will be put under restrictions that bear little relation to the pandemic's course there.

The districts only exist for administrative convenience and do not have their own sets of elected officials.