Having spent most of the past 20 years in China, furniture designer Frank Carroll saw his company Alfrank Designs face insolvency last year. Aged 71, he was asked: “Do you still want to do it?”
We can no longer outsource governance and hard choices to Europe, energy to Russia, and security to the US. Whether we figure out what to do with ourselves in the right time scale is another matter.
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