Learning from history. Some things don't change.
As we plough onwards very slowly through the turgid mud of this pandemic it might be helpful to know that we are struggling in ways that men and women always have done through time. There has for ever and a day been confusion, argument, delay, prevarication and criticism by all who know better in times of crisis. Those in power have not always indeed hardly ever worked together in harmony : factions and divisions have caused dithering and delay. Meanwhile the opposition parties have brought to the situation politics, self seeking and an eye to a future when they could be in charge themselves. And when the country trires of one political party and allows a new group of people take charge of the government then the whole cycle begins again. I have been reading about the career of David Lloyd George, During the first world war , as it is now known , he was Chancellor of the Exchequer , subsequently Minister of Munitions , ...