Is it just me, or has the initial excitement at the premature arrival of the future all but vanished? It feels like such a long time has passed since we were first debating the relative benefits of working from home; when we were wondering if we would ever experience jeans and shoes again. Back in the olden days, we didn’t know anything about Zoom, and meetings were still stiff, awkward gatherings where you doodled in a notebook and fantasised about the mandazis you would obliterate afterwards.
But then we were told if we continued behaving normally...