Unwanted records...

American fatalities from coronavirus have now passed 100,000, more than the number of combatants who died during the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. And the UK currently has one of the world’s highest rates of coronavirus deaths per capita: 4.49 deaths per million people per day, with only Sweden and Brazil coming out worse.

Here we are: two great nations united in our incompetence when faced with a global pandemic, ‘led’ by a pair of narcissistic chancers who are unable to rise to the challenge. One day we will discover how countries such as Israel, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwam, Singapore and Japan seemed to have handled the pandemic without such catastrophic loss of life.

Licensed today: boats bobbing about in Padstow harbour…