"It’s absolutely correct that we talk about how our various governments are handling events. Apart from anything, doing so is the start of the process that will allow us to begin with the reconstruction of the kind of society – fairer, greener, less individualistic, food sustainability, a basic income – that we were all told had ended with the “triumph” of neoliberalism and the unchallengeable primacy of the free market economy. I honestly think the quality of the discussion has been mostly pretty high from the start. And, just as the last global conflict led to the political and societal disquiet that brought about the National Health Service, the social contract and the Common Agricultural Policy. Out of darkness came light. Hope can again rise from despair."
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