At a moment when the most exciting new politician in the Western hemisphere has built a campaign around affordable housing.

Interesting that it’s tulip mania that stuck, and not say, railway mania - an example from closer to home.

Here’s the Joe Rogan bit:

youtu.be/syR0klF6I9c?...

But, pretty clearly now, the lasting impact has been the loss of trust.

How was Covid as a test run for dealing with crisis?

On one level - great!

We accepted a policy of collective sacrifice and came up with a technological solution.

This was about the spread of climate scepticism and myths.

But Covid kept appearing as the vector that spread conversion to conspiracy theories.

How was Konstantin Kisin ever a stand-up comedian? “An Englishmen, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. By this I mean all their parents are white. They have pure white blood. Anyway…”