Vaccine diplomacy and drama

India transferred five million jabs to Britain in need

It’s Priti Patel of course. The home secretary, backed by two other ethnic Indian ministers, Rishi Sunak and Alok Sharma, probably instigated Boris Johnson, the deceptively flaxen-haired émigré Turk prime minister, to turn up his nose at Covishield whose Oxford imprimatur should endear itself to a former president of the Oxford Union. But immigrants who make good often don’t want reminders of the old country.

Given New Delhi’s current fascination with Kautilya, there might also be a more complex explanation for the fusillade of tits for tats between Britain and India. It began with a Labour party by-election poster showing Narendra