It Was All Going So Well....

At first, I was worried this was going to be a superficial treatment of the subject, but perhaps that was just by way of scene-setting. Later chapters gave much more depth, even to the extent of reading out equations.
It lacked in the evolutionary psychology, or neuroscience, perspectives, but you can't have everything; and lots of factors were discussed with examples.
Then it all fell apart in the last hour when he abandoned objectivity on three "hot topics" (at the time of writing, I suppose):
Brexit
Covid
Climate Change
He clearly has strong opinions on these, and his biases oozed out. As just one example of many, he held up the Chinese response to Covid as a model that should have been followed in Britain. Whether he's right or wrong is irrelevant - he should have stuck with objectivity or at least chosen subjects that aren't still sensitive to many people and which don't have easy answers.
Pity - because he was much more balanced through the rest of the book. As he himself stated about us humans that experience something is that we tend to remember how things end. I will remember this book as leaving a sour taste in my mouth at the end.

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