Last of the tens

As we enter 2019 only one thing really surprises me- we're at the end of the tens, the 2010s, I mean. This is the last year of the decade, which means we're two decades into the 21^st century. For the first time I begin to ask myself the question, what is this century like? Now that we're almost 20 years into it, and 2019 will just be a kind of finishing touch to the decade, what is the 21^st century about? 

Over Christmas I watched with my family a documentary about the First World War called 'They shall not grow old', a brilliantly renovated and edited compilation of scenes filmed in the trenches- created by Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings. It's amazing how much that terrible…