As the world burns, the rich raise a glass — and the bill is paid in conscience, not cash, writes Dr Rosemary Sorensen. It’s the dinner party way of doing things: Tut tut, isn’t Trump awful the way he’s destroying America? Only through reading, not from my grandfather’s experience, did it become possible to imagine what those soldiers and civilian populations went through. It sets the tone, too, for places where the wealth divide is not quite so huge and the pretensions comparatively modest. “I could drink a whole mug of this,” my dining companion said, to which I replied, “Yes, and it would cost you $100”.