A full meal: Bangladeshi restaurant owners are enjoying something of a bonanza, temporarily, from the government offer of up to 6,000 pounds per business in catering and hospitality for loss of business arising from the current wave of the virus. Most restaurants in Britain describing themselves as Indian are Bangladeshi-owned. This extended furlough will not last long, but then nor does the government believe the virus will.

Digging into paneer: The British have at last discovered the joys of matar-paneer and palak-paneer, the two dishes most likely to win acceptability for North Indian vegetarian cuisine. Possibilities with paneer have topped 250 million views on TikTok, and British tabloids have begun to speak of it as the new Halloumi. Looking for alternatives to meat, paneer is now coming to British minds as to their tables, as it has for Indians for centuries.

Christmas disaster: An Indian restaurant in Manchester is facing a barrage of criticism over Christmas fare served up that was neither very Indian nor very Christmas-like. Chicken and chips were not what some diners were expecting. The restaurant insists that customers were forewarned because traditional Christmas meals were not proving popular. Those who ordered emphatically Indian food appeared to have less to complain about.