Reflections 3rd July.

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On my Mind

Resilience

The news can feel unrelenting at the moment, I suspect pretty much wherever we are in the world. We have such a choice, from the behaviour of our politicians, to the dark side of location technology being used to prosecute those who fall foul of laws that become increasingly authoritarian, to the fragile nature of our infrastructure. It becomes emphasised through the polarity provided by the news of the booming market in private jets for those who want to get round queues at airports, or otherwise leverage extraordinary wealth to continue to consume regardless.

It's easy to feel stuck between a rock and a hard place.

The problem is that what our attention is drawn to forms a minority - a tiny proportion of the ridiculously rich at one end, and a larger but still relatively small number of the socially and financially impoverished at the other. That leaves the majority of us, those in the contracting middle, feeling under threat at the …