Reflections 17th March

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On my mind

Incoherence

Anger is such an interesting emotion. At its worst, shallow, incoherent and inarticulate, manifesting in mindless, destructive violence. At its best, harvested from the flow of feeling, like hydroelectricity from a river, collected and directed energy to bring about change. Coherent anger with purpose.

I've noticed my own anger this week, as we've witnessed the treatment of lying to Parliament (for sake of clarity, that's us) as some sort of a jolly jape, the requisitioning of Rwanda as a latter day colony to which we can dispatch the inconvenient, and the treatment of Ukraine as a great drop in photo opportunity. The idea that it's ok for the families of those who govern to have non-dom tax status, as though they are the political equivalent of transient premier league football managers, and the apparent acceptance without substantive challenge that the actions of P&O were somehow an anomaly rather than a commentary on the accepta…