These days we can go from fear of a novel virus to concern for the financial sector in a single sentence.

In a time of national disaster (and please don’t encourage those seeking the powers centralised under a full-blown state of emergency) befalling the most unequal industrialised society on the planet, surely we need a more targeted approach than discussing “how to oil the wheels of the economy”...

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