Running out of battery: how post-#Brexit Britain is failing to set up a future-focused economy - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/31/brexit-britain-future-economy-jaguar-land-rover-industrial-strategy
@glynmoody von Clausewitz, in "On War" wrote something like:
"In war everything is simple. But in war even simple things are difficult. The friction added to operations is something that cannot be appreciated by those who have not been there."
Thinking back over the last 13, or perhaps very slightly less, years, my experience has been of the steady addition of friction to ordinary civil society.
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Corollary: we have been at war this last decade or more.
But, with whom or what axis of which evils?