Being Totally Reliant on the Digital World is the Achilles Heel of Today’s Society

With the most recent IT outage issue in mind, where you can’t book a flight, order on Amazon, get a take-away or Uber and when the CHAPS payment method fails and property solicitors can’t complete transactions, we are reminded about how reliant we are on the internet and the digital world.

When it fails, we are totally stymied and or world grinds, summarily, to a halt.

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Will it be a pass or fail for the impending VAT on school fee debate?

The German writer Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) presciently stated that Communism ‘…possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.’ Sadly, this may come to pass in the imminent General Election, as Mr. Starmer and his merry band of class warriors get the keys cut to No.10, with warm beer and bacon butties on the menu, ready to give the middle and upper echelons of society a good kicking and prove Heine right.

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