Reasons to be cheerful.

I suspect I'm not alone this morning in feeling a little bewildered as on the one hand our Government lays down seemingly arbitrary rules for meetings (I can meet more than six for work, but can't meet my family) whilst at the same time playing fast and loose with international law.

It's easy to get frustrated when there's such a stream of genuine and manufactured confusion around what's happening. I think we have to have some sympathy for an administration wrestling with a complex evolving problem, although less with the uncertain leadership we are being offered.

However, ripples of unintended consequences don't only go in one direction. In the middle of all this are the beginnings of a different future.

Here are my reasons to be cheerful for today:

1. The Covid problem is not just going away, which means we have the opportunity to change the way we work on a permanent basis.

2. We're beginning to understand that we cannot delegate responsibility for what we do - we have to take individual resp…