Simon Collins
Can you remember when ‘We live in interesting times’ was an acceptable response to the disruptions caused by Covid-19? And did you notice how, by the end of last year, it had become a phrase everyone had stopped using because it had fallen so far short of describing quotidian reality that it no longer even worked as irony; it just meant you hadn’t been paying attention.
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