Month: June 2020

The friendly clutch of my forearm took me by surprise.  After three months of stringent social distancing, even the pre-lockdown elbow bump seems a distant memory.  And now I found myself looking down at the genial grandma who had grabbed my arm in B&Q. “It’s all right” she said, referring to me telling my children … Read More

Slogans are deceptive.  They manipulate us into thinking something is obvious when it is not.  Take the phrase “we’re all in this together.” Assumption: we are facing the same problem so will act together to solve it.  For a while the slogan seemed to work, but only while people were scared they might catch coronavirus … Read More