It has been a rollercoaster last few weeks. Or maybe year? Or even two or three years? Much has changed since the turn of the millennium.

But there wasn’t a big BOOM moment, the change was gradual and had many components.

Here are some of the issues and questions :-

TECHNOLOGY – first the internet and now AI – where is this taking us ?

AGEING POPULATION – increases demands on pensions and health care – is this sustainable?

IMMIGRATION – a source of cheap labour, but is it a cultural fit?

CLIMATE CHANGE – increasingly real, but can we afford to do anything about it?

NATIONALISM – started as devolution and backfired, Pandora’s box ?

GLOBALISM – a fluid network of trade and people, can there be boundaries anymore?

HEALTH CARE – great advances = greater demand, so is rationing the only answer?

INFLATION – forever devaluing the £ in your pocket, can we stop it?

EDUCATION – declining standards in the three R‘s, but woker ?

DEFENCE – we have enjoyed the peace dividend, are we about to reap the war dividend?