Alzheimers is becoming the most common cause of death. The costs it imposes, usually on families, but also on society are immense. Preventing it will require investment to research and therapies, but these makes sense in terms of the quantum (all of us!), and reducing the healthcare burden on society. There are investment solutions!

How do we fix the UK’s broken National Health Service? Don’t expect much from politicians – fixing the NHS is politically dangerous, might take decades, and is way beyond the time frame of the next election. It’s better to tinker, make some noise and do little. There are many reasons the NHS is effectively broken, but even more reasons to be hopeful it can be fixed – if we can just muster the vision and imagination to make it happen and use tech!

As summer wends towards its end, a winter of populist discontent from left and right will make Europe increasingly fraxious. While the US economy will likely be on path to recovery – Europe will still be trending down.