Bill Harvey: Chaos AD

This was the first year I had been unable to get hold of a Glastonbury ticket since my first visit back in 1984 – the year when a cuddlier Morrissey headlined. To somehow make up for missing Attenborough storm the Pyramid stage, I consoled myself by hitting the iPlayer and found some interesting references to eye health.

To begin with, I heartily recommend the recent ‘Years and Years’ series, penned by Russell T Davies and concerning how a family cope with the next two decades as predicted by the author. I loved the scene (episode five if you’re interested) where the grandma and matriarch figure self-diagnosed her sight loss as being due to macular degeneration using an online app linked to her webcam. At her eye clinic appointment, she was told how this was now completely curable with a simple injection of cells into her retina (the date was the late 2020s, so feasible?). She was also told that there was a three-year waiting list for the treatment under the NHS but, by paying £10,000, she could take advantage of the NHS fast-track option.