Do you get the feeling that as a society we have peaked? That things are never going to get any better and we are on the downhill run to, well, what Joseph Conrad coined ‘the heart of darkness?’ I don’t want to get too maudlin here, but the ‘warring’ (sic) twenties certainly aren’t progressing well – fires, floods, plagues, and war. As Bill Lawry would say, ‘it’s all happening!’
As readers of this magazine, you probably like to delve into the past and reminisce about how it