I am a optimistic as anyway you knows me knows and I believe we can achieve a bright future. With technology and social acceptance of many groups we already live in a wondrous era even if we do not realise it at times.

I do feel that to move society to the next stage of its development we need to prepare by radically reviewing and dealing with issues of wealth, disability, health, energy, transport and so on. The economic climate is an opportunity to be more efficient and focused in our proposes.

In the next few weeks I will be preparing my ‘Wellbeing and Inclusion’ manifesto which will outline some concrete ideas for the future I am interested in. I am clearly share this in a future article so watch this space.

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