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Rock-solid principles in an uncertain world

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Ferocious storms, a virulent pandemic, volatile stock markets, airline failure… I almost want to ask what more could possibly go wrong this year. But even I, the least superstitious of people, would feel uneasy about tempting fate like that.
Deborah McMillan is commissioner for children and young people in Jersey. Picture: Deborah McMillan/Jersey
Deborah McMillan is commissioner for children and young people in Jersey. Picture: Deborah McMillan/Jersey

And yet, as grim as it has been, there is at least one useful thing to have emerged from these past few months of turmoil.

If nothing else, 2022 has been a vivid reminder that the world is a deeply unpredictable place. Just when you think you’re starting to get a handle on it, something inevitably comes along to turn it all upside down again.

Obviously, this is hardly a revelation – for most people, the observation that life is unpredictable is one to be filed away under Basil Fawlty’s category of ‘The Bleeding Obvious’. But for me, as Jersey’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, it’s a reminder I can’t get often enough.

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