What Boris Johnson knows about football could be written on the back of a postage stamp but even he must know a team down 5-2 or 5-3 is losing heavily.
The Prime Minister saying he has pulled a goal or two back after claiming the planet was being beaten 5-1 is still a bad defeat.
He was the one to issue apocalyptic warnings if vital agreement was not reached at Cop26 in Glasgow to limit global heating.
Disastrously that breakthrough deal is not on the table although we should welcome a pre-packaged pledge to reduce greenhouse gas methane emissions and a renewed promise from countries such as Brazil to save forests.
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The globe’s leaders will never be forgiven if they stop or block action to prevent the nightmare of temperatures soaring above pre-industrial revolution levels by more than 1.5C.
The summit missing its primary goal means we are all losers unless victory is snatched from the jaws of defeat over the next 10 days.
Care is priority
Firing tens of thousands of care workers when 105,000 vacancies exist would be madness by the Government, jeopardising the lives of the disabled and vulnerable.
The elderly and others should be protected from Covid by jabbed workers but requiring unvaccinated staff to take daily tests would be better than leaving the housebound and those in homes with no one to care for them.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid either recognises he could be triggering a fresh crisis or the recruitment drive he is launching will be too late for people needing care now.
Education and reassurance must continue to encourage us all to be jabbed, as wielding a big stick may create a worse problem.
Back ban plan
Labout MP Fleur Anderson deserves to clean up with her campaign to ban damaging plastic in 90% of the 11 billion wet wipes we use every year.
Tory Ministers must not be allowed to play dirty tricks to bin her Bill.
