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Month: February 2021

The Way We Weren’t

The Way We Weren’t

All nature resists change. We know we know the devil we know and we know we prefer it to the one we don’t. We also know that something is seriously up. We’re not quite sure what, except that many of us would rather not think about it. But it’s happening anyway and, as was the case with 2020, things will look very different again by the time 2021 has finished with us. We are, apparently, getting a thousand years education condensed…

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End of Empire

End of Empire

There’s an old Chinese folk tale of a farmer whose horse ran away. But moron that later. Meanwhile, the UK has just slipped over the Brexit precipice in a way that might have given Thelma and Louise a run for their money had there actually been any real momentum left. By the time we got to the edge, the impetus was so minimal and the passengers so confused and sedated by years of utter (self) deception and months of mismanaged lockdown, that…

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