I wonder if at some point in the near future, next year some time, it’s going to become clear that some industries, hospitality and events for example, are a dead duck for the foreseeable future, and that investing any state money with the hope of saving the jobs in those industries is throwing good money after bad.
If it turns out that COVID will change the economy fundamentally and structurally, that it’s not just a blip, there is the opportunity for imaginative radical political thinking, the opportunity, the necessity even, for a radical plan for the COVID economy - a plan which is not based on the presumption of growth.