Cling to hope
WITH so much grim Covid news, let us try to focus on the positives.
Yes, there are some.
The Pfizer jab seems, from early tests, to work against the more infectious strains engulfing Britain.
A huge relief.
Britain has approved a third vaccine, Moderna, and bought huge stocks — and is rapidly now accelerating the jabs programme using Army logistics experts.
And Trending In The News’s Jabs Army recruits will ensure it’s rolled out smoothly and safely.
More top firms have signed up to our effort, as have two ex-Prime Ministers.
But there is no glossing over the deaths, infections and patients swamping our hospitals.
Next week, maybe, the lockdown will start to cut these terrible tolls.
All we can do is sit tight, minimise our risk, and remember life will get better.
Clown and out
WITH every utterance, Donald Trump heaps further ignominy on his last days in office.
His latest weasel-worded address, trying to swerve blame for the Washington riot he stoked, is an insult to the world’s intelligence and a cowardly betrayal of his own fanbase.
How typically infantile of him, too, to shun Joe Biden’s inauguration.
But don’t imagine his departure will heal the US any time soon.
One poll claims more Republican voters support than oppose the social media-fuelled conspiracist thugs whose assault left five dead.
Political polarisation in America is way more toxic than it is here.
We don’t envy Biden trying to heal it.
Leave it alone
AFTER our own years of bitter Brexit discord, most people are just relieved to see it done and the rage subside.
But it turns out Labour is secretly itching to reignite it.
The naïve and rash confession by Rosie Duffield MP — that most of her colleagues “are desperate to rejoin” the EU — is a nightmare for Keir Starmer.
He has already hastily U-turned over promises to tweak our trade deal, which would mean surrendering sovereignty.
Why?
Because he badly needs Leave voters back and cannot afford a Brexit election in 2024.
Except he may haemorrhage Europhile votes if he doesn’t buckle to his MPs who crave just that.
Rejoining, or softening Brexit, is a stone-cold loser for any major party.
Starmer’s job just got much harder.
Fitting Ender
WERE it not for Covid, Babs Windsor would have had the huge send-off she deserved.
But no vast throng lined the streets.
Just the 30 hand-picked close friends legally allowed to attend — and a few well-wishers outside.
And yet it was a fitting, poignant farewell full of the irrepressible humour Britain loved her for.
RIP, Babs.
What a star you were.
