For several days I had tubes down my nose into my stomach and sticking out of my arm, oxygen into my nostrils, and a catheter. Several doctors who questioned me asked “do you usually talk like that?” since my speech was slurred. My partner and siblings were seriously worried.
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In Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times, former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks argues we have undergone a kind of “Cultural Climate Change” that has seen a “move from We to I”. Where we used to put family first, now our priority is “self-actualisation”.
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Queuing had always been a response to finite goods or services, but before they were for essential ones. The longest queues were now for the exclusive night clubs and restaurants, often artificially created as a signal of exclusivity. And then, suddenly, Covid-19 turned back the clock. Once again, queueing has become about scarcity.
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The predictions of air travel growth are based on the assumption that nothing fundamental is going to change. But we have reason to believe that more than one fundamental has changed. If so, past performance may not be indicative of future results.
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Recognition that many private businesses, such as supermarkets, provide public services is long overdue.
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