Monday March 23rd
I'll keep this short.
Understandably there has been much discussion in recent days on the topic of leadership. Everything from, thoughtful, analytical, constructive debate to disobliging sniping by the disgruntled.
At times like these no good deed goes unpunished. With unprecedented circumstances unfolding from day to day there is doubtless no less enviable job than first Lord of the treasury at this time.
So whether you like our leaders or not, they are there. Imagine for a moment if we had no leadership.
Frightening isn't it?
No voice, no help, no sense of purpose nor unified direction.
In other words, a bit like being a self employed musician right now.
Obviously millions of self employed people work in other sectors apart from music and much of their current experience will be entirely similar to ours.
The difference is the capacity for leadership. I'm sure there is still the odd celebrity plumber or gardner out there, but with nothing like the potential to make headlines and set an agenda that can cause seismic shifts in public opinion.
You only have to look how influential certain music industry types were on matters such as the EU referendum and the December election. So now that the very industry from which you have so enriched yourselves is crippled, possibly never completely to recover, where do I read your words? How do I witness your deeds?
Stormzy, Bono, Sir Bob, Lily, and all the rest of the usual suspects.
Where are you?
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