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    Plague and pestilence

    Dec 23, 2020 3 minutes
    Duke of Sussex suggests coronavirus was rebuke from Mother Nature

    SO READ THE HEADLINE in the Telegraph, evoking images of a bygone age when plagues were sent to punish us and repentance was the surest route out of any natural catastrophe.

    Not that this intervention reflected any desire for a return to the Lord our God. He was merely quoting his aunt, the sometime Duchess of York and many other excitable celebrities — including the United Nations, which dolefully tweeted out in June that “nature is

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