David Kendall

They sit bemused under the equatorial sun, like the victims of natural catastrophe, an earthquake perhaps, the second shock imminent and inescapable. The young men and women of Nauru.

Theirs is the first nation in a hundred years to plummet from “First World” to “Third World” status in a single decade. Suddenly, shatteringly, theirs is not a developing nation – it’s an unravelling one. And they’re still falling. Oblivion awaits.