Boris Johnson’s expressed fear of a Covid-19 third wave is in marked contrast with his complacency before previous waves, his incompetence intensifying the deadliness of the first two.
Perhaps the PM has learned the fatal error of past ways or maybe he is exploiting an opportunity to blame leaders in Europe, who oversaw fewer casualties yet mishandled jabs.
The message may also be directed at noisy Tory MPs on the right of his own party who have learned absolutely nothing, as they demanding that a lockdown they never wanted be lifted early.
What is true after the success of the NHS vaccination drive is that when everybody has been inoculated, a rise in infections won’t kill or put in hospital as many as in the past.
Let’s stick to the data – and hopefully the dates – to overcome this virus.
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Street smarts
Shuttered shops in graffiti-tagged, rubbish-strewn, vandalised empty high streets will be an unavoidable nightmare unless we save our town and city centres.
By joining politicians, retailers, trade unions, community champions and the public who are backing the Mirror’s High Street Fightback campaign, Labour leader Keir Starmer is helping to get the momentum going.
At stake are the very hearts of the places we love and tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of jobs and the wages they pay.
Shopping online can be cheaper and easier but US corporations such as Amazon must be forced to pay fair tax rates, with the money raised invested into our high streets.
Shopping centres can enjoy a vibrant future if they are helped to adapt. We need the Government to act before it is too late.
Master at work
New Mastermind presenter Clive Myrie’s own specialist subject could be Covid and the NHS, given his BBC News reports.
But the bad news for contestants is that he is unlikely to give them the sympathy he showed patients during his brilliant work.
