What Prime Minister wouldn’t have made mistakes in once-in-a-century catastrophe like Covid?

Boris on rack

WHAT is the point of the second show-trial of Boris Johnson?

Aside, that is, from providing warm employment for smug lawyers and ­political anoraks.

We get that bereaved families of some Covid victims need closure. Sadly, we doubt they’ll have got that yesterday.

What did the supposedly forensic examination of the former PM’s every WhatsApp or scribbled aside tell us?

That in 2020 a famously chaotic man, just elected to power, hesitated and made mistakes when a once-in-a-century catastrophe struck.

That he struggled to decide between the lethal risk to mostly frail old people and the dire threat of wrecking our economy and the jobs and savings of millions.

Which politician wouldn’t have?

The accusation is that he wasn’t on top of the detail. Maybe.

But he seemed more on top of it than the inquiry’s KC Hugo Keith, who authoritatively but falsely declared that Britain’s excess deaths were one of the highest in Europe. In fact we were below average.

This was a telling insight into the inquiry’s pre-determined narrative: That Britain fared worst because of the Tories. If only reality backed it up.

As ever, we are learning nothing about whether lockdowns worked or were worthwhile given the damage they did.

Or why our public health “experts” were unprepared despite their bogus assurances. Or whether we are remotely ready for another pandemic.

But that all sounds a bit too dull for a £200million-plus inquiry fixated on gossip, sanctimonious hindsight and TV coverage.

Bill barney

RISHI Sunak has walked a tightrope drafting a radical new law to make the Rwanda deal a reality.

It’s tough, but not enough for some Tories including outgoing Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick. Rwanda itself seems to have insisted on softening it.

Stand by for a bloodbath in Parliament. Labour loathe the Bill. They like open borders and detest deterrents. But a deterrent IS what’s needed.

As for those Tories who think they have the luxury of some new rebellion, they’re hammering nails in their own party’s coffin.

Wicked Left

THE moral degeneracy of the Left over Gaza is excruciating and chilling.

The heads of three elite US universities, including Harvard, admit they would let their students call for Jewish genocide depending on “the context”.

Imagine them finding “context” over calls to exterminate ANY other minority.

This rancid prejudice is far from unique to unis in the States. It is rife at ours too. Leaders here must crush it.

Anti-Semitism is the one racism the hard-Left accepts. And how they revel in it.