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We in the UK are in dire straits – politically and economically – at the same time as we are threatened by enemies to which we have only just woken up. And global perils call for better informed leadership than Britain now has.

There are many terrific podcasters and writers alerting us to the dangers confronting us.

I want to join them in getting the message across that the UK has to fess up to its political leaders’ failures of the last 20 years and rejuvenate, re-develop and re-boot. My particular angle is that we’ll do well to see our country in the perspective of Asians who have rebuilt theirs during the decades that we, on many measures, have been disintegrating.

There are two questions where my absorption in the Middle East, the Mediterranean and China may give  a distinct angle:

1. How can Britain recalibrate its identity (as many modernising countries have done in the 20th century) in a way that unites the generations in the defence of the extraordinary achievements of Anglophone civilisation?
2. How can we build a relationship with Chinese civilisation that circumvents the politicians who have so harmed their own people and cause us sleepless nights?

I plan to post and interact with some of those great podcasters, but to try to express in fiction what is happening in the lives of ordinary people during this era of turmoil at home and geopolitical upheaval.