Weight of words
May 23, 2021
2 minutes
ANDREW ANTHONY
An early and enduring entry in the Essential Covid List of Clichés was “the new normal”. With its promiscuous relevance and trend-defining, zeitgeist-grabbing appeal, it instantly became the catch-all ironic phrase, fit for just about any social occasion. Everything that was abnormal was the new normal, and there was so much that was abnormal.
We’re now in a process of renormalisation in
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