A columnist-turned-politician who has never fallen short of words and expressions, in both writing and speaking, suddenly gave up his attempts to provide an appropriate response to the grim statistics of over 100,000 Covid-19 deaths in Britain. On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ended up saying, "You'd exhaust the thesaurus of misery. It's an appalling and tragic loss of life." He, however, claimed his government did everything it could to minimise deaths. And the reaction to his claim has been fierce. Scientists, opposition politicians and victims' families say a series of "poor decisions" made before and during the pandemic led to one of the worst death rates in the world. It is worth noting that though this official figure already is the highest in Europe, there is another set of accounting—also compiled by a government agency, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)—that shows an even higher body count, by at least 20 percent. It is d...