Suzanne Harrington: The great irony of the year award goes to the Covid vaccine

Millions of people in rich countries are offered a free vaccine and refused it, while in poorer countries, millions are desperate for it, and can’t get their hands on it.

Goodbye then 2021. You’ve been weird, but at least you weren’t 2020. Role reversal of the year goes to James Bond, who was killed off, and the Taliban, who made a sequel — shouldn’t that have been the other way around? And despite the continuing global erosion of democracy, as Brazil, China, Russia, India, Hungary, Turkey, etc, continue to be run by Bond villains, at least Twitter got rid of Trump.

The Bidens are German Shepherd lovers, a detail we can cling to for comfort after the dogless Trump was hounded out, leaving a January 6 trail of Capitol-invading Q Anons in his wake. We watched them on the telly — a reality show to make Squid Game look like Blankety Blank.