We are, as a nation and as the West, too bogged down with our stuff. We need, urgently, to declutter. We need, as a civilisation, to get the big pebbles into our pint glass before we start filling it with sand. And next to refugees, fuel shortages and actual war, everything from trans swimmer Lia Thomas to the state of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s marriage is essentially powder and dust.
