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It made quite a change to have a real bit of news on TV last night – the launch of Mr. Musk’s space taxi with a pair of NASA astronauts as fares. Where the Russians go wrong is not letting the world see their launches in case something goes horribly wrong and dents the image of the Putinocracy.

Credibility zero

There’s nothing the criminal community loves more than any old excuse for a spot of looting and arson. And the mobs in the USA have the cheek to talk about justice while rocks and bottles are flying and businesses and buildings are going up in flames.

Flim-flan?

“It’s the diet that could save your life”, claims the puff in the Daily Mail for a doctor with a book to flog. But if it doesn’t save your life, hard luck? So much for Dr. Mike’s corona cookbook.

Sounds of normality

I heard an ambulance siren yesterday – something that used to be common before all the trouble started. That’s going to be one of the indicators of normality’s return – the usual level of ambulances dashing about and needing to use a siren to get a clear spot of road.

That’s fair

The best reaction to the Dominic Cummings Affair I’ve heard is that anyone else can do what he did in exactly the same circumstances. But only in exactly the same circumstances.

Cynically . . .

‘Book now for 2021' the advert in the paper read. ‘Book now to be ripped off again in 2021’ more like, if this year’s experience is anything to go by and there isn’t a vaccine for the Chinese plague available.

Well, I never!

The most interesting thing about sacked Labour leader Oh, Jeremy Corby, 171, is that . . . his hobby is photographing manhole covers. Sounds about right.