From the Editor
The original ‘Summer of Love’ took place in 1967, when young people travelled from across America and beyond to congregate in San Francisco. Attracted by the bold spirit of bohemia and its accompanying mood of crackling excitement and experimentation, this generation championed a new era of openness and acceptance. Summer 2021 has a similar feel to it. Like then, we’re all understandably obsessed with escape – not from the conservative social values of the early Sixties – but from more than a year of pandemic-induced turmoil and lockdown incarcerations. Our flower-power forebears used the period to celebrate the key ideas of 1960s rebellion: communal living, political decentralisation, environmental awareness and the benefits of ‘dropping out’… Interestingly, these are all issues that seem particularly pertinent to the here and now. I’d argue there’s…