I'd say COVID pandemic should get a mention as it's more than disrupted global trade, and from my side British engineering is booming for the first time in my lifetime, it's a shame we haven't invested enough in training youngsters, as there's more jobs than people that can do them, lots of opportunities now for the ones that can afford to requalify etc. The government has failed miserably for decades including Blair's /brown stint and the Tories . If you can't even defend an islands borders then you're not worth having..