A world worth wanting, and why Steven Joyce is completely wrong as usual

Sunday column

I’m about to tell you a story, and I need to warn you in the strongest terms to make no emotional investment in it whatsoever. It has a dreadful ending and I am only telling it in order to illustrate some lessons I learned from telling it. 

Please, I stress, invest nothing in this story, do not fall in love with its hero. It will seem charming but it wil…