Almost eight million people in the UK were already living alone and, in a time of national crisis, find themselves in greater need than ever before of the companionship that has been denied to them.
The screen went black for a moment. There was a scrap of garbled audio. And then, suddenly, I could see into the living room of a care home in Surrey. In the background were high-backed chairs with residents sunk into them, and a TV showing the news. In the foreground, dressed in a cherry-red jumper, was Lewis Spicer, my new friend.
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