1.0Ageinghttps://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/ageingeuroresidenteshttps://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/ageing/author/euroresidentes/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="Gw2Z38Ilrx"><a href="https://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/ageing/understanding-inexplicable/">Understanding the Inexplicable</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/ageing/understanding-inexplicable/embed/#?secret=Gw2Z38Ilrx" width="600" height="338" title="«Understanding the Inexplicable» — Ageing" data-secret="Gw2Z38Ilrx" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> I have never been good at facts, understanding and absorbing them and placing them in their cultural context. I kid myself that I am better at relationships and values, though of course the two are related. I have just read the journalist and novelist John Lanchester’s remarkable book ‘Whoops – Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay’ . It’s an expose of the crashed financial system under which all of us live, and from which so many innocent people are now suffering. One critic says of the book that it is ‘virtually a miracle to my mind –