And so, finally, adieu 2020. It’s been a long year and a long time since a year acquired such a bad reputation so quickly. Well, 1939 probably wasn’t a cracker, or 1914 to be honest, but still. We leave it behind in the hope that, more than ever, a change of number will bring a change of fortune. It undoubtedly will, although of what kind is impossible to even guess at. I, for one, will be returning my 2020 diary for…
Ma Nature doesn’t do straight lines, and if we think she does it’s only because we’re too close up. While this idea may apply across the physical world it also appears to extend into less tangible areas and concepts too, such as history. In the same way that the horizon is actually circular as opposed to horizontal, how would our perspectives change if we considered that world history is perhaps not quite as linear as we like to think? It’s…