There’s a school of thought Stateside that all Joe Biden need do to win in 2020, is light Donald Trump’s fuse and step well back. Some political observers think Joe might not even need to do that. That master of ‘cool’, the 44 th  President Barack Obama has given some advice to his former Vice-President. Keep speeches, interviews and tweets short and sweet. Calmness will win the day. Due to his 77-years, Joe is libel to a few verbal slips and some mind wandering moments that send his advisers into a tale-spin. Recently he gaffed that 125 million Americans had died from COVID19, when he meant to say 125,000. Compare that to the everyday carnage of Trump’s Presidency, with screws visibly loosening and daily temper tantrums indicating implosion is always imminent. So, the word on Pennsylvania Avenue is for Joe to keep his cool, drink plenty of water and avoid any more mistakes, that make him look decrepit. The fact that the Coronavirus has claimed 125,000 American lives is really hurt...

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was a Broadway musical,(1962) and a Hollywood film,(1966).  Inspired by the farces of Ancient Rome’s equivalent of Woody Allen, a playwright called Plautus (251-183 BC). His bawdy tale tells of a slave and his attempt to win freedom by helping his master woo the girl next door. Using puns, slapstick, mistaken identity and satire he comments on the social classes of the time. I wonder what old Plautus would’ve made of the deadly farce entitled ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to COVID19’, we all find ourselves playing a bit part in? Who can we blame? The current Coronavirus pandemic has made us all a tad jumpy. A desperate search for answers has spread across continents, wanting to uncover the reasons for what’s turned our routine-filled lives, upside down. Finger-pointing headlines like ‘Yellow Peril’, ‘Chinese Panda-monium!’ and ‘China kids stay home’, have appeared in newspapers around the world. Our lives might...