Temporariness
"The news" can be a funny phenomenon. All of a sudden newsworthy matters come to the fore and attract days or weeks or months of news treatment. Then gradually these topics fade into the background or disappear entirely. Eighteen months ago, Putin's war upon Ukraine hit the headlines night after night but now it is far less prominent and days can go by without reference to Ukraine at all. Weather events like flooding, heatwaves or fire attract the focus of news services and a week later it is as if they never happened at all. Currently, here in England, the main news topic is concrete - or more specifically RAAC which stands for Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete. Just before our schools reopened after the summer break, our esteemed government led by Richie Rich (Rishi Sunak) announced that a significant number of our schools are potentially unsafe because of this building material which was widely used between the 1960's and the 1990's. With the passa...