Saturday 4 April 2020

Headline Priorities.

The daily news headline is supposed to reflect the most newsworthy fact of the day, isn’t it? That’s what I’ve always believed. Today’s banner headline on the BBC website is all about President Trump declining to wear a mask.

So tell me, why should I, an Englishman living in a quiet rural backwater of the English countryside, be remotely interested in whether Trump wears a mask or not? What I’d be more interested to know is what effect the Covid-19 pandemic is going to have on this year’s presidential election, and whether the world is going to have to put up with Trump longer than it thought it would.

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