General News 3: Panic, paucity and pessimism: life on Plague Island UK | Zoe Williams

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With a mutant Covid variant out of control and lorries piling up in Kent, Britain feels like a country adrift and rudderlessThe rest of the world is calling the UK Plague Island because it’s true: a mutant strain of the coronavirus is out of control, laying waste to fantasies that any region is out of the woods, or that the November lockdown had its desired effect, or that we might manage a “merry little Christmas”, in the words of the prime minister.The plague phrase carries...

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