I had a few minutes to spare one morning last month. Slightly aimlessly, I flicked through the news app on my phone. Within a short time, I’d read these headlines, among others:

“Like a horrific board game: 33 hours inside an NHS in crisis”

“The women on a war footing as the cost-of-living crisis deepens”

“US: onslaught of new abortion restriction looms”

Instantly, I felt more on more precarious ground and dwarfed by the magnitude of the turmoil in the UK and across the globe …