On the day Britain's vaccine tsar announced the deal securing 40 million doses of the Pfizer jab, her Brussels opposite number was literally talking about the price of fish. It was July 20, and while Kate Bingham was giving the UK a stunning head-start, Stella Kyriakides, the European commissioner in charge of the bloc's inoculation plan, was embroiled in an intractable meeting of the EU's Agriculture and Fisheries Council. A further four months would elapse before the EU managed to place its own order with Pfizer. Success has many fathers, and Ministers and scientists are jostling to recei...