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A good week for the Gods of Irony

Margaret Keenan receives the Pfizer/BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at University Hospital, Coventry, administered by nurse May Parsons.

The Gods of Irony are having had a good week. They may have conspired to juxtapose events, one seismic, the other a work in progress, to show how daft people can be, how we can cling to questionable positions with an irrational fervour. 

Or maybe they just looked on confident that we would, as we so often can, do their work for them.