The world survives, so far

It has been a helluva week: nuclear war threatened, a Cuban-missile-type crisis, two leaders at each other's throat, superpower America warning of catastrophe looming. But here we are, the weekend is approaching, Trump is playing golf, Kim Jong-un is doing whatever Kim Jong-un does in his spare time, the beaches in Europe are full of suntanning holidaymakers, and Brexit is still a mystery to most of us. So, as Rex Tillerson rather aptly put it when the North Korea debacle erupted, nothing has really changed. The world has survived another week. But I fear this is the sort of world we're going to have to put up with for the next decade. With Kim Jong-un around, and Trump, and Putin and several others not quite in their league, there will be few weeks where absolutely nothing happens, and a lot of weeks where nuclear war is just around the corner. Best to remain opimistic, hopeful and happy and, perhaps stop reading Trump's tweets. And Kim Jong-un? Give it a rest please for the next few weeks and let us enjoy our holidays.