Over by Christmas...

Our political masters may be talking about a “return to normality” by Christmas, but that sounds ominous rather than reassuring (after all, a lot of people thought that World War I would be “over by Christmas”, only to see hostilities drag on, calamitously, for four long years).

Americans, meanwhile, seem to be lurching between denial and fatalism… thereby providing an object lesson in how not to deal with a global pandemic. While I don’t want anyone else to die unnecessarily, I do want Trump to be ousted from the White House, with a Democratic majority so big that even his pre-emptive excuse - “the vote was rigged” - will fall on deaf ears.

Licensed yesterday: turning the hay in South Lakeland...