Happy New Year

To all followers of this Blog, my best wishes to achieve your goals and ambitions in 2017. A lot is going to happen in what will be a year of many changes. We have Trump, Brexit, Europe, the Middle East, faltering globalization and the rise of an anti establishment political wave called populism. All of it is new, so there is no reliable basis for prediction or outcome. We can only hope that those who have been passed by in the rising standards of the few will get a better deal and those for whom each day and night is ripped by violence and terror will be granted their yearning for a more peaceful world. Those in public life who have responsibility to deliver these things must redouble their efforts to do better than has been the standard of the more recent past.