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Last modified on Sun 17 Jan 2021 23.37 EST This is what a true crisis feels like. The UK has now recorded more than 100,000 deaths from coronavirus and, according to the governmentâs chief scientific adviser, the daily toll will continue to be awful âfor some weeksâ. Our capital city is so overrun that Covid patients are being moved to intensive care units hundreds of miles away, and across England nearly 4.5 million people are now waiting for operations. A test-and-trace system that was meant to be âworld-beatingâ is almost irrelevant; we now learn that the £78m plan for daily mass testing in English schools has not been approved by the agency that oversees medicines and health products. Vaccinations will eventually ease the situation, but everywhere else you look, there are government blunders, delays and failures which â in a more predictable world â would already have had huge political consequences. ....
IN THEORY, 2020’s lockdown should have provided the perfect conditions for major outbreaks of bibliophilia. But, following an intense publishing year in 2019, when The Washington Post book section declared that “fascism is back in fashion” and classics like Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America and Sinclair Lewis’s It Could Happen Here shot up bestseller lists, 2020 ironically seemed less fevered the rise of Covid-19 and the US presidential election shifted the ground beneath publishing’s feet somewhat. Faced with a worldwide assault on democracy, with authoritarian populism gaining traction in countries including Hungary, Poland, Turkey, the Philippines, Brazil and, of course, the US and Britain, many writers seemed to have entered the depressive stage of the grief cycle. ....
It may have been the highpoint of the relationship between Britain and Ireland. Anglo-Irish relations were never warmer than during the Queen’s visit to Ireland in 2011, when she attended a dinner with the great and the good in Dublin Castle, addressing President Mary McAleese with the words: “A Uachtarain agus a chairde” (“Madam President and friends”). A couple of days later, there was the surreal sight of the monarch strolling around the English Market in Cork, joking with the local fishmonger Pat O’Connell. It was a scene that nobody would have envisaged during the darkest days of the Troubles. ....
COMMENT As the possibility of a No-Deal Brexit grows, Mike Small argues that the UK’s days are numbered ‘I’VE looked very carefully at No Deal. That outcome would be a failure of statecraft”. Boris Johnson, Dublin, September 9, 2019. As we watch Boris Johnson’s No Deal land with all the precision of a SpaceX’s Starship rocket it’s time for us to understand the origins and the possibilities of this latest stage of the unfolding phenomenon. Liberation is at hand – but most national liberation struggles have glorious leaders to the fore. Johnson is not that leader. As David Cameron reported to his communications director Craig Oliver he had (and no doubt still has no idea what the actual consequences of leaving are): “He actually said he thought we could leave and still have a seat on the European Council – still making decisions.” ....