Like Daisies Through Concrete
Having stretched everyone and everything out of any recognisable shape, the interminable UK lockdown is letting us out to play again. Kind of. We step gingerly into the spring sunlight blinking like participants released from a Deep Time experiment that has gone horribly wrong. Whereas the volunteers in the French 40-day study were deprived of all news during their spell in a cave, here the general populace has been force-fed little else for over a year now. And what a tasteless, unsavoury…