The medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps was meant to point out potential dangers. Suddenly we're all in the same unchartered waters again.
At times like these it may help to listen to the voices of people who have a far better grip on history than we have, and how history, while not repeating itself, certainly rhymes. David Robert Starkey CBE, an English historian, radio and television presenter, is just such a voice.
David Starkey Talks
There's a lot more of David Starkey that's worth listening to - click here - which I'm listening to in the company of my own resident dragon.
"Here be dragons?" To put it in the vernacular, we're up shit street!
