9 February

Find one big public issue that isn’t explained by the old replacing the circle of life with eternal unchanging youth. Faces that don’t age, countries that have to be shaped in the patriotic image of the past, tradition and institutions replaced by ‘lifestyle’ considerations, borders to keep change and diversity away, exponential increase in travel while our own landscape disintegrates, xenophobic fantasies about countries ‘going it alone’. Etc. In the news today, more pork barrelling to the old. Easy dots to join.