It was good to hear this part of Ker Starmer& #39;s victory speech today:
"We can see so clearly now who the key workers really are.
When we get through this it& #39;ll be because of our NHS staff, our care workers, our ambulance drivers, our emergency services, our cleaners, our porters.

"It will be because of the hard work and bravery of every key worker as they took on this virus and kept our country going. For too long they& #39;ve been taken for granted and poorly paid. They were last and now they should be first."

"They were last and now they should be first." Starmer.

An echo of the Gospel text, Matthew 20: 1-16, the Parable of the workers in the vineyard: v. 16: & #39;So the last will be first, and the first will be last.’ & referenced by John Ruskin in his famous, "Unto this last.", (1862)

John Ruskin& #39;s book,

& #39;Unto this Last& #39;, (1862)

can be read & downloaded here in this 1921 edition, Edited by Susan Cunnington. The 4 essays that make up the book were published in 1860.

https://archive.org/details/untothislast00rusk/page/n11/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/u...

& #39;Unto this Last& #39; had a major impact upon Mahatma Gandhi, who used the Sanskrit word, ‘Sarvodaya’, a term meaning & #39;universal uplift& #39;, ‘wellbeing of all’ or & #39;progress of all& #39;. as the title of his 1908 translation of John Ruskin& #39;s tract on political economy.