THE year 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. In 1919, the poet WB Yeats wrote these famous lines in his poem The Second Coming: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
These words echo the present state of shambolic chaos, as the US-China trade war seems to escalate towards confrontation at multiple levels. The high tide of financial markets is now in retreat, and murder in the consulate unfolds in Internet speed. Everywhere, the centre in politics and creed cannot hold, whilst polarisation is increasing by the day.
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