Reflections 8 November

What's on my mind

The world feels just a tad lighter this morning as on both sides of the Atlantic humanity gets a toe in the door, whether something as momentous as an election, or as basic as an obvious decision on meals for children.

That getting from where we are to somewhere better requires Community and Conversation, not command and control.

Even although it's largely common sense, we are seeing compelling evidence that centralised control doesn't work in times of rapid change without control. Control belongs to autocracies, and we're not one - not yet at any rate, and a little further away than yesterday.

Right now we have test and trace, PPE procurement, Lockdown strategy and funding, and many more. If we extend the time frame backwards ten years, centralisation alienated Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to the point where they have established susbstantial independence demonstrated through thier separate current differentiated strategies around Covid-19.

Our inability to engag…