george arbuthnott is a deputy editor of the sunday times�*s insight team, jennifer williams is politicsitor for the manchester evening news and rachel oldroyd is managing editor and ceo of the bureau of investigationjournalism. it's actually the bureau of investigativejournalism, isn't it, rachel? it is. george, let's start with you. over the past year, you've been writing pieces on the sunday times over britain's handling of the pandemic, and your book on this is called failures of state. it's out this week. it features whistle—blowers from within the government and the nhs. how have you gone about cultivating sources during a pandemic? cos, presumably, you can't sneak off for a quiet coffee when we're all on zoom, as we are right now. that's right, but, funnily enough, in some ways, it's actually been easier because the key is to build up sources within the government and the nhs, and normally, particularly within the government, that if they've got their bosses overseeing them in the office, it's very hard to get a call in to them and have an open conversation, but because everyone�*