
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
As Space X’s Crew Dragon docked with the International Space Station last Sunday after a 19-hour flight from the Kennedy Space Center, someone tweeted: “To the astronauts of Crew Dragon: well done for escaping Planet Earth”. As if the Coronavirus and a culture war weren’t enough, yet another killing of a black man has sent America’s racial antipathy into its own kind of orbit. Tweets from the President were, as usual, nothing less than incendiary. National Guard patrols in