5 March

One of the most lethal delusions about our idea that 'the people' run democracies is that we assume we will need to convince people of all the emergency things that need to be done, before they can get done. That's never how the world has worked. You do the emergency things, and then find ways to make them palatable to people. And you run right over the top of objectors, or they will quite literally destroy your civilisations.