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The Covid-era protocol for face-to-face meetings

Centuries-old norms of behaviour are changing, shoved aside by blunter health and safety guidance

Queen Elizabeth may have shaken a stranger’s hand for the last time. Even if state occasions resume, and even if others become comfortable again with a palm-to-palm greeting, it will be a brave palace flunkey who advises a 94-year-old monarch with a 99-year-old consort to risk it.

You don’t have to be a royal to have felt this strange shift in the codes of human connectivity and sociability.

The last business dinner I attended before lockdown was arranged to discuss trust. Guests included entrepreneurs, philanthropists, financiers and a senior clergyman.

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安德魯•希爾

安德魯•希爾(Andrew Hill)是《金融時報》副總編兼管理主編。先前,他擔任過倫敦金融城主編、金融主編、評論和分析主編。他在1988年加入FT,還曾經擔任過FT紐約分社社長、國際新聞主編、FT駐布魯塞爾和米蘭記者。

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