Bad things happen in threes (so my mum used to say). The cumulative impact of the UK leaving the EU, followed by Covid-19 and then Russia invading Ukraine, has launched a series of shockwaves through most of what we thought we knew about life, the universe and everything.
But has this recent and truly tumultuous period sowed a seed of something resembling what is often described to my (post WWII) generation as ‘the wartime spirit’ back into our lives and our world? Is resilience on the rise? Has the effect of shaking our foundations been to lay down stronger ones (which we litigate about less than we used to)?
