It is when under stress that the weaknesses of any system are exposed, and boy is our society under stress just now.
Coronavirus will push our health, social care, political and economic systems to their limits. There is much talk of an almost wartime economy, where essentially all productive capacity is aimed at defeating the enemy, and politicians with one eye on the history books making pleas to patriotism.
My instinctive wariness of the patriotism card being played and of the present crop of political leaders who choose to play it is something I cannot shake, and one which I must […]
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