Roll up, get ready!
Have you got Bovril in the house? Go make yourself a hot Bovril drink to enjoy while you’re reading this. I’ll tell you why just now.
This year has brought us all face to face with isolation. We’ve become obsessed with it.
Isolation can take various forms. A prisoner is isolated from the outside world, but at least most prisoners know there’s a fixed date when their incarceration will end. Some people voluntarily live isolated lives, like a Kalahari farmer at the end of a jeep track 10 dunes away from the closest cellphone reception. But he or she might own 600 sheep and a Land Cruiser, so life is good. You can also experience a sense of isolation within yourself. An Alzheimer’s sufferer might have forgotten the names of friends and loved ones; the intimate connections severed. But despite this,
