Humanity remains to be unearthed

All the spark needs to ignite a full blown bonfire of humanity is empathy, writes Suzanne Harrington

AS PRESIDENT-ELECT of the Divided States makes it to the cover of Time magazine as Person of the Year (they mean “man”, obviously, although they changed to “person” in 1999 — Angela Merkel was their non-man in 2015, and Queen Elizabeth II in, um, 1952), you might think Time, like much of America, has lost its mind.

Then you remember how it nominated Hitler once and Stalin twice, and relax. It’s not an endorsement. Oh wait. Did I say relax?