Is there another lesson here?

The latest evidence shows that the UK has one of the highest per capita coronavirus death tolls in the world alongside Brazil and the USA.

Is it a coincidence that all three states are led by right-wing nationalists with reputations for putting their own interests ahead of their peoples’?

When trying to understand why our country has screwed up so badly, one need only to go back to February 3 and the nonsense put out by Boris Johnson in his Greenwich speech. His attitude was that effective containment measures like Test-TrackQuarantine were ‘bizarre’, ‘autocratic’ and ‘market segregation’.

At the same time he suggested that ignoring the pandemic protocols to keep business ‘open as usual’ would transform him into a universally celebrated ‘Superman of Capitalism’ figure and teach those Johnny Foreigners a thing or two.

So the Tory government completely failed to implement essential