COMMENT | Toxic competition in civil society will not inspire public confidence

COMMENT | Comfort, in these trying times, is in short supply. Only the most lucky and immensely privileged will find themselves unaffected, perhaps even benefited, from the incidents of this year and last.

Most people would have experienced some, most, or all of the following just from trying to carry on with their normal lives: sickness, affected incomes, job losses, business challenges and closure, hunger, abuse, disenfranchisement, anxiety, depression, aimlessness...

We have also passed the point where all of us have experienced loss; friends and family members who have become casualties of the pandemic. Their absences leave gaping wounds that we cannot look away from, and grief that we have no choice but to deal with in pseudo-isolation.

We owe it to...