Reflections 13th September

Cloister corridor of Santes Creus Monastery,Tarragona,Catalonia,Spain.

What I’ve noticed.

That I'm finding myself quietly optimistic. If that sounds irrational, it's not because I think all will suddenly be sweetness and light, it's because what is happening is forcing us to pay attention whilst we can still do something about it.

Coronavirus is going to be with us for some time, and we have to learn how to adapt. As we do, we're discovering how to work differently, to consume and travel less frivolously, and to value our communities and relationships. That's a reason to be cheerful.

I think we're at the end of the "bluster and bully" phase of our exit from the EU. We can't go backwards, and no matter how deeply flawed, and perhaps politically engineered the decision was too much water has gone under the bridge, and we now have to make sense of who we want to be, what we want to do to, who to follow. We have enormous resources, and need to learn to use them wisely rather than just selling…