The Big Issue

We need our own Moses to help us focus on the big issues

Probably the noise of conflicting voices has gone up because of Covid, with the still unsorted problems it has thrown us. “Cacophony” is a nice word to capture that sense of many people speaking together while not necessarily listening to each other. “Harmony” seems to have been put on the back burner.

Always on the lookout for an image or an experience I went to my favourite London gallery, The Hational Gallery, last week and found the very image I was after. An image of people taking their eye off the ball.

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