September, in America, and no shortage of back-to-school spirit in national politics and governance and contemporary political theatre.  Contrary to what a couple of oddly leggy online rumours last weekend would have had us believe – fuelled by images of swollen extremities, stage makeup on a hand and an unusually quiet bank holiday weekend just gone – the president isn’t dead.  To look at his administration’s lively record, of late, far from it.  RFK Jr, his health secretary, earlier this week moved to usher in a new Centres for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine panel (the prior panel of 17…

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