Illustration by Michael Rea
What is the first news event you can recall?
The British airborne landings at Suez on the canal zone, in 1956. I was not quite 10 years old. We discussed it at school in nervously excited terms, wondering whether it would lead to another world war.
What is the biggest problem?
Mass migration due to war, famine and global warming will soon overwhelm borders, nation states and their infrastructure, and lead to civil conflict. I first glimpsed a vision of this in 1990 when crowds of mainland Chinese swamped Hong Kong’s borders in a last…
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