The UK's mutant virus and tail-backs at ports have made front-page news around the world
23 December 2020 • 12:18pm
Call it concern or call it schadenfreude, but for whatever reason, stories of the mutant coronavirus strain, and images of British lorries stuck at Dover, are adorning the world's front pages.
In yesterday's
New York Times a journalist coined the term 'plague island' to describe the United Kingdom. Elsewhere, in the Toronto Sun, Britain was labelled the 'sick man of Europe'.
Countries have differed in their coverage, of course, with French media appearing to be particularly keen to hammer home that Britain's current isolation perhaps foreshadows a no-deal Brexit. Other countries shine their focus on Boris Johnson's leadership, the opening and closing of borders, and the impact of it all on the stock market.