Tough times create tough men comes to mind. Leadership in the UK is absolutely pitiful. Yes, you can work on multiple problems at once, but in reality both the

Tough times create tough men comes to mind. Leadership in the UK is absolutely pitiful. Yes, you can work on multiple problems at once, but in reality both the public and private discourse is focused on utterly trivial and stupid stuff. The top level goals of a government are to ensure that the state exists and can protect its' citizens. We enacted income taxes on that basis in the first place for wars. Now we have people arguing the toss over whether cars should emit a particular thing because it reduces life expectancy by a few months or landlords should put triple glazing in because tenants would pay slightly less on their bill or men can pretend to be women or whatever else. Fiddling over 0.1% issues whilst ignoring the elephant in the room. I fear that there's going to have to be a big shock and we'll wake up from this collective delusion much like in the early days of Covid when everything just... stopped.