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The great unravelling: escaping today, rethinking tomorrow
It is possible to use today’s coronavirus crisis to rethink Britain’s policies — on food security, food health, social inclusion and ecological repair. But we face a second crisis — of leadership, explains ALAN SIMPSON
A quiet high street in West Bridgford, Nottingham as the UK continues in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus

WELCOME to ghost-town Britain, a land none of us was prepared for.

Barely three months ago, you would have ridiculed anyone suggesting we would be tuning in to the daily death count from virus which was creating mayhem across the land.

But this is where we are.

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