London (CNN) The days are meant to get longer now. But not this chaos from nature, cutting the UK off from the rest of the world with such pace and fear. The first gave central London a ghostly and surreal new sheen amid the sirens. That would make the UK almost an anti-China, sensibly over-warning the rest of the world of the risk of this new variant. Instead, the world took the UK seriously as we were, for the first time, not divided or unsure about something.

Source: CNN December 22, 2020 19:40 UTC