Tiger Economics

Those who rejoiced at Team Starmer's moderate and sensible rowing back on the green crap will doubtless be further gladdened by the continuing improvements wrought by the climate catastrophe. Tropical diseases are making their way into southern Europe; and the Asian tiger mosquito, which transmits the excruciating chikungunya virus, is likely to find a comfortable home among the real people before very long. The prolonged and severe joint pain which results from infection may impede shelf-stacking, soldiering and breeding little Britons, but could still prove beneficial for the economy in the long run, as it will provide a useful incentive for health industry customers to pay for the expensive vaccine. It is to be hoped that Wideboy Wesley Streeting and the other grown-up guardians of the nation's health will be sufficiently far-sighted to make the appropriate investments.