Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

What makes us think they’ll release lockdown after vaccines?

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issue 23 January 2021

Has the coup happened yet? You have the advantage over me. It was supposed to have taken place on Sunday. Then it slipped back to Monday morning. When Monday morning came and went in a markedly coup-less state the date was revised to Wednesday. Anyway, there was to be a worldwide media blackout after which President Donald Trump — for it is he — would announce to the world that he was still in control and that Joe Biden and a whole bunch of others had been arrested for their various roles in covering up election fraud.

The rapidly shifting date of this coup reminds me a little of my mother-in-law’s frequent assertions that the world is going to end on, for example, 12 October. And then when that day drifts by in a rather bland manner, she will announce that due to some mistranslation she got it wrong and really meant 12 April.

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