Plague and pestilence

Duke of Sussex suggests coronavirus was rebuke from Mother Nature

SO READ THE HEADLINE in the Telegraph, evoking images of a bygone age when plagues were sent to punish us and repentance was the surest route out of any natural catastrophe.

Not that this intervention reflected any desire for a return to the Lord our God. He was merely quoting his aunt, the sometime Duchess of York and many other excitable celebrities — including the United Nations, which dolefully tweeted out in June that “nature is