Watch out for sneaky government legislation.

[cloughie]

I don’t suppose retreating into music with a decent pair of headphones will help much ?

No, though not.
tempting though

I must say that the last few years, and 18 months in particular have found me looking more and more, musically , to times when possibilities seemed to be endless and positive, musicians might help drive us in great new directions, protest might actually achieve things. When visions were of better times ahead.

50’s jazz , 60’s psychedelic pop, the Beethoven late quartets, whatever.

Indeed ts, back to the 60s when as a teenager so much music to be explored and discovered was new or new to me and it was to be the last full decade the Owls would spend in the top flight.
But still here, still vertical and trying to keep optimistic despite an occasionally misty optic wondering how on earth we managed to land ourselves in the mess this country seems to be and perhaps why so many voted for it!

[oddoneout]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/17/new-bill-quietly-gives-powers-to-remove-british-citizenship-without-notice

This doesn't seem to have attracted much attention, so perhaps I'm overreacting to feel it's another nasty piece of work, made even more so for being in the remit of a department neither known for getting things right nor caring about the effects of its mistakes.