I’m of an age where my train of thought has left the station without me, is an observation that seems increasingly pertinent to me. But is that my fault; a fault of age or intellect or both? Possibly. Or is it the result of a deluge of truly ‘wicked problems’ we are all now presented with. The hopefulness of a new year in 2021 was rapidly dulled, even in its opening month, by the hugely disturbing storming of the Capitol in the United States and a dawning realisation that the Covid-19 pandemic was far from over. Optimism was further dampened later in the year by failure to assure democra…