THE title of a famous early 1960s West End and Broadway musical, Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, may seem more relevant as we tread with trepidation from the tumult and turmoil of 2023 into what by all accounts will be a turbulent 2024.
Media headlines scream about poverty returning to the UK (did it ever leave? … Ask minorities and immigrants), no doubt compounded by the kamikaze Brexit decision.
The US – which variously parades itself as a bastion and custodian of democracy – appears bankrupt … at least from a political leadership perspective