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7 August 2021

9:00 AM

7 August 2021

9:00 AM

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How the Covid tables have turned. In the pandemic’s initial stages, the Anglo world congratulated itself on its robust common sense response. Australia promptly implemented policed quarantining of incoming travellers. Boris Johnson rolled out the quickest vaccinations by a major economy. Meanwhile the EU moved glacially, partly because of such imperatives as translating documentation into its 24 official languages (including Irish – 60,000 native speakers).

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Mark Higgie is the Spectator Australia’s Europe correspondent @markhiggie1

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