Good morning, it’s Paul here with the placeholder article for Thursday morning’s readers comments.Estimated timings today – should be mostly done by 1pm, but I expect to carry on until c.3pm.Lockdown – this is starting to become tiresome, but I understand the need for it. I’m going to have to dodge the over-zealous megaphone wielding rozzers, and get some exercise this weekend. A month of lockdown has meant an expanding waistline, driven by too frequent deliveries from Dominos pizza, and too much ice cream. We’ll certainly be a nation of bloaters once this is all over.Italian tech – one news item which amused me, was that an Italian Govt website for people to claim support money, crashed due to a huge surge in online applications. This prompted the website Pornhub to offer its technical expertise to the Italian Govt, since Pornhub’s servers were also experiencing an unprecedented rise in traffic but had managed to continue operating as normal. It seems that Italians are using the lockdown to do more than just eat pizza!US markets – I can’t believe how much the US market has rallied. I think in terms of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, just because it’s what I’m…

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