We were promised the Roaring Twenties – or at least that’s what we hoped for. This time last year, optimists among us made a bold prediction.
2021 would be the year the world not just gingerly regained its balance, but felt strong enough to dance again.The pandemic surely had to recede, thanks to the vaccination programme.
We’d see a return to travel, entertainment and hospitality – even hugging.Essentially, the view from 2020 was as D:ream sang: things can only get better.
Or to put it another way, things couldn’t get any worse. Historians will tell you that the original Roaring Twenties were marked as much by a ‘return to normalcy’ as by the flourishing of freedoms.