2019 - Restore / Repair / Recycle / Reinvent?

Two years ago today, the headlines were about the posturing and promises over an easy Brexit, Amber Rudd expressing reservations over Universal Credit, and the NHS and losing £200m a year over obesity. A decade before that, it was the financial crisis whilst the SARS epidemic in Asia was a minor concern here. All easily forgotten in the finite game thinking of quarterly earnings.

All signposts to today, when we have at one end economies printing pretend money to support businesses that depend on the thinking we had ten years ago at one end, and at the other end, today sees the average CEO of a FTSE 100 company having earned more so far this year earning more than the average employee would have done in "normal" year.

When something is broken, we have a number of options:

• We can restore it to it's original condition. Normally at significant expense to put back in perfect working order something that is no longer practically useful, but is of great nostalgic and anthropological interest to…