Bleak Midwinter

Recently many of us watched the fictional BBC account of a smallpox pandemic in which 60 million people died; the virus was unleashed deliberately by a terrorist, causing civil unrest and economic collapse as it spread across the globe.

The uncontrolled epidemic was caused by doctors not recognising the disease and officials not acting fast enough. Imagine a repeat of the black death of the middle ages: Bleak Midwinter is exactly that.

Two weeks before Christmas, Rajiv …