It’s just over 500 years since Sir Thomas More first described what he called Utopia in 1516. So this month’s Ten Things celebrates More’s fabled island nation.
Ten Essential Elements of My Utopia

1. Always a perfectly sunny warm early summer weather
2. No death or life-threatening illness; all illness cured by love
3. A perfect ethical code that everyone follows, hence a world without greed, hunger, thirst, violence or war
4. No rat race and no oppressive employment
5. No fossil fuels and hence no polluting transport or power generation
6. Magic carpets for transport
7. Good, free education for all; higher education which everyone wants to attend for the sake of learning
8. No religion or politics; no political parties
9. A universal respect for Nature and the environment, hence a green and pleasant land
10. Everyone is open-minded with a universal acceptance of nudity, sex & sexuality, freedom of speech.

Unfortunately we all know that Utopia is, by definition, unattainable, for if we ever got there there’d be another Utopia just beyond reach. The grass is always greener, and all that!