What awaits us post-pandemic feels terrifying - from the climate crisis to a bad-deal Brexit. In an era of huge division, it’s time to recognise how much we have in common
I used to listen to true-crime podcasts, where all the ads are for surveillance systems and DNA tests for your pet. I was hooked on those, bingeing on them, fixating upon likely culprits, like a lady Cracker.
But it had to stop: there was something hubristic about it, as though, on some sub-verbal level, I thought I was helping. I used to dream about people being found in barrels, skin cells trapped under the extra-long fingernails of a murderer. It’s better for my character, I decided, to listen instead to people who sound a bit like me talk about the unseen consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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