Reflections 7 February

There is something in the wind. I think we can sense it better than we can describe it, but the wind has changed.

Ask people if they're ok, and you will get the normal "yes, fine" but ask them how they're sleeping and you'll hear something different. Ask people in traditionally "safe" jobs - tenured academia, the civil service and the like what they're noticing, and they'll tell you about what's changing around them, not just in what they are doing, but in how they are having to think and respond. Ask the younger generations about what is going on, and prepare to be lambasted, particularly if, like me, you're a "boomer". It's easy to understand why.

Business cannot lead a country. Leading a country needs an entirely different mindset with a concern for a much wider constituency with measures that assess far more than money, and a completely different vision and sense of sense of timescales. Despite that, over the last thirty years we have lauded business,and given it not just access, bu…