There are times, every now and then, when I do just wonder at the awful way the world is turning out. I don’t mean the thankfully abstracts, such as the suffering in Gaza or whatever dreadful international situation that you are concerned about, but rather the everyday things back home. For me at the moment it is the slow collapse of the old Conservative Party and its replacement by a mutation that seems to view everybody and everything with suspicion. The other is to be rejected and feared. Whilst at the same time we must not, under any circumstance, question why over the last 20 years the rich have got so much richer whilst the rest of us haven’t. Or perhaps ask why in the last 13 years the country in which I live in and have given quite a bit of my life to is in many ways so much worse than it was 13 years ago. Are the two connected? Only you can answer that.