Suzanne Harrington: The Handmaid's Tale is happening now, today

"What sounds comedic from a distance – the new president, perhaps envious of his Russian role model’s brazen invasion of Ukraine, has set his sights on Greenland, Panama and Canada, as though the world were a giant Monopoly board, an Amazon wish list – is anything but funny."

Suzanne Harrington at home in Brighton.

You know that crash warning to ‘brace, brace’ on a plane? Well, here we are, except we’re not on a plane. 

The world is brace-bracing, as the cockpit of Western democracy is today (legally) hijacked by a satsuma-hued criminal and his Gilead tech bros.