Reflections 22nd May

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On my Mind

Cohesion

I have found this week unsettling and encouraging, with a distinct lack of normal. At one end, an unsettlingly detached government response to a stream of challenges from the horrifying realisation of implications of the cost of living crisis and its impact on the "just about managing" (remember them?). To more widely the emerging food crisis so clearly articulated in The Economist (paywall), the continuing evidence of the realities of climate change with whole chunks of Australia become effectively uninsurable, and war in Europe that bring levels of brutality we thought were behind us. A dispute with the EU on Northern Ireland that begs for collaboration skills but which is falling into the short term "BishBash" policy, and an arguably justifiable "windfall tax" of energy companies, is short term politicised as "contrary to Conservative values". Right.

Keeping the embers of a sense of humour alive has been hard work.

Fortunately, the…