How much of what we're seeing today is due to the emergence for generation of political leaders with no experience of full-time conflict and therefore little sense of fragility of human institutions? I think this is a very important question. What you say about the nature and quality of our representatives, our politicians, in other words, brings me neatly to my next question. Now, you start your book and we began this series by talking about your parents who fled the Nazis as refugees from Austria and the Netherlands respectively.

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