Absence of vaccination costs lives: Measles killing more than ebola

In an increasingly polarised world, the battlelines are all too obvious — and hardening. The rise of Trump, Orban, Putin, Ergodan and the Brexiteers’ coup bewilders those who cling to the belief that post-WWII liberal values still have transformative, positive possibilities. Climate collapse has set the future against the past — and today — in an almost unprecedented way. Science struggles to overcome emotion.

These are the grand headings but there are myriad subplots. Gun control in America is one. In Ireland, the wealth-cornering move from homeownership to lifelong tenancy is another. Vaccination is another.