There has been huge change to our lives over the past fifteen years, much of it unrecognised.  Of course, the more obvious has been caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, but others are just as significant.

            Starting with politics, the old divisions of left and right have been conflated with the current Conservative Government spending more tax-payers’ money than many Labour administrations.  The Labour party once represented the working man with its heartland in the industrial areas of Wales, the Midlands and the North of England, whilst the Tories represented professional classes in the South, the rural areas of the shire counties.  That was turned on its head at the last Election when the red wall turned blue and the Conservatives now woo votes in the post-industrial heartland once staunchly Labour.  Labour now appeals to middle class intellectuals in Notting Hill and Islington.   This raises the question of who stands for rural areas, the country folk that make up more than a quarter of the population?  Perhaps the Liberal Democrats after the Chesham and Amersham by-election.