17th February 2019

There’s nothing like being ill to give you a different perspective on the world. So, as I cough my heart out, how can we help ourselves?  First, personally. When you need to get up in the night, first sit on the side of the bed for 30 seconds. As any paramedic will tell you, that’s the way to avoid a stroke. And the metabolism of the world? Forget Brexit and widen your horizons. Ask yourself if every nation should join together as one world, agreeing to never fight each other again, nor to show irrational hostility to others. Yes, it would reduce individual nation power, but as long as each new World State retained its individual ethos, wars and irrational hostility to others were eliminated, isn’t that a price worth paying?  Tiny Hawaii, despite being a part of the USA, is still very different from, say, Washington DC. Great care, though, would need to be taken to avoid a world dictatorship at the top! World democracy would be key. But at least then when the first alien visitors arrive, they could be taken to Earth’s leader!