UK – the Titanic sails blithely on

‘Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind.” Shakespeare, King Lear.Boris blunders and bungles along making a total bollix of the pandemic response, sparing the odd moment to cast a glance towards the Brexit negotiations. Today he’ll talk directly to the EU President Ursula von Leyen, pushing his standard line of – there’s a deal to be done but we don’t care if it isn’t.   If the UK leaves the transition period on 31 December witho