We need Weird....

Sinclair C5 1985

As we step tentatively into 2022, we find a world no different from the one we left in 2021, but perhaps after the break, it just looks stranger.

There’s something about posturing around Omicron security as we observe different approaches, from the cautious to the aggressive, with different aspects of our wellbeing the table stakes. NHS capacity, versus the economy, versus mental health, versus public services capacity in everything from education to bin collection. It’s a difficult call, and we won’t know which way the cards have fallen for a while. It’s also a precursor of things to come, as the other disruptors we know are coming limber up.

It reminds me of a need for “weird, ” for ideas and concepts that fall out of the mainstream, have conservatives choking on their kedgeree, but which point the way to what we may have to entertain sooner than we want, from working from home, to travel budgets, to minimum basic incomes as we get to grips with the realities of the im…