Reflections 7 March
In a week that has seen a budget, a contentiously low pay award to those who've covered our backs in the last year, massive spends in Downing St on a media centre, and a makeover by a temporary resident there that would buy a house elsewhere in the country, my mind has been drawn towards connections and infrastructure.
When things are uncertain, connection is critical - physical, emotional, purposeful and spiritual. It's what anchors us. The non fungible aspects of our lives. In this strange and liminal, trans Covid, trans Brexit period whatever comes next will be built on these aspects.
It seems slightly absurd when we cannot hug at will, in order to prevent the spread of a virus because we don't have the capacity in our healthcare infrastructure because we have been following an "efficiency" dogma, that when the crisis begins to ease, we ignore the relationship, sacrifices and infrastructure that got us out of it.
It's a bit like not servicing a racing car so we can pay the driver more…
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