Brexit redux. By not accepting unforeseeable circumstances require an extension the UK government are just building the pressure on themselves and losing the opportunity to take the initiative in making an offer.
Brexit redux 2. The Brexit ultras insist extension is a remainer plot / trap. The remain ultras demand the longest possible extension. The EU play passive aggressive. The absent centre ground, but that's what the UK and EU will one day have to find. Why not today?
All a distraction from tackling coronavirus. Which no country can do completely on its own, though some do better than others. Regional and global cooperation is required, which is more than warm words of a G20 statement...
In the US a bipartisan group of senators have requested a delay in implementing the NAFTA replacement USMCA for reasons which equally apply to the UK... (source: Politico) 
