COVID and the Artilleryman
8 min readOct 17, 2020
Can we Build Back Better taking inspiration from the iconic War of the Worlds character?
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…