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“Go you to France or Flanders, To any German province, Spain or Portugal, anywhere that not adheres to England” – Sir Thomas More. Today, there are 68.5m displaced people because conflict, disaster or oppression yet the xenophobic rhetoric continues.

Snap, crop, filter, geo-tag, share. Repeat. At more than 300 million Instagram posts, #travel is today’s postcard. Millennials, who prioritise experiences over possessions, pick Instagram-able destinations with 40% under 33 selecting trips this way.

France won the world cup. Now, can Emmanuel Macron do for the country what Didier Deschamps has done for their soccer team? To do so, he will have to succeed in reorganising the welfare state, face the endlessly striking unions and tackle immigration.

There is irony in Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics for American Dream if you consider the rising rates of mortality and obesity among America’s blue-collar workers. The cohort that helped to build America is in the throes of a ‘deaths of despair’ epidemic.

The UK’s vote to exit the European Union and Donald Trump’s victory were signals of a worsening ‘democratic recession’. Today, only 4.5% of the world’s citizens live in fully functioning democracies, down from 8.9% in 2015. What are democracy’s flaws?

Imagine a world without Google, Facebook and Amazon. More than half the world is now online. An egalitarian and decentralised non-proprietary protocol is now monopolised by a handful of technology platforms. Is it time for the regulators to intervene?