GROUND ZERO

The COVID-19 crisis has caused our fast-spinning world to slow to a halt. Even after trillions of dollars of quantitative easing, it still feels like the whole world has been hit by some dreadful physical freezing. Now, everybody waits with bated breath for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to begin his terrible squeezing. Just when the pandemic feels over, winter arrives, and people start coughing and sneezing, gasping and wheezing.