Carl Lamb: The curse of living in interesting times

It's said that if someone says "may you live in interesting times", they're using an ancient Chinese curse to wish bad things to come your way.  Certainly, many of us would consider a quiet uneventful life to be a blessing - particularly after the events of the last few years. We've had disasters, political unrest, disease, product shortages, escalating cost of living, and now war. What else will the future throw at us? There's no denying that the war in Ukraine will have a global effect, whatever the outcome. We are at a time of great danger: I was a fighter controller in the RAF dur...