COVID and the Artilleryman

Michael Abberton
8 min readOct 17, 2020

Can we Build Back Better taking inspiration from the iconic War of the Worlds character?

Photo by the author ©MichaelAbberton 2020

At the beginning of the pandemic, one of the books that went right back to the top of the bestseller list was War of the Worlds by HG Wells. Its descriptions of the end of the British Empire, with the then unthinkable devastation that British soldiers had meted out on other cultures and foreign cities being dealt on the familiar…

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Michael Abberton

Tomahawk thrower, writer, trade unionist, Japanese speaker and all around good guy.