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At the chalkface: Build back better? Well, we can’t go back

Could this be a 1945 moment? A Post-Covid Dream? We certainly need a sea-change. We can’t go back to the old normal. The plague has surely caused some enlightenment...

I gaze at bluebells... Lovely...
I gaze at blossoms... Lovely...
I gaze at a TV... Unlovely!

The prime minister is tweaking his vote-winning tresses, bumbling and buntering merrily along under a couple of flags. The subject seems to be schools. Too many children have been suffering in the pandemic. Fear not. Bunter is on it. Something or other will be done. It will be massive, big, amazing and easily world-beating.

Hurrah!

I get a rush of breezy optimism. Or maybe I’m just high on those bluebells and blossoms – or the vaccine. I forget for a moment the irredeemable tragedy of the plague.

“We’re going to build back better!”

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