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I ask this question as Britain prepares for its seventh Prime Minister in less than a decade. Given that a parliamentary term is four or five years, by rights we should only be watching our third PM. That unsettling feeling is not just about what is happening here at home. It is also about what is happening across the world.

When we talk about menopause, the conversation often focuses on hormones, hot flushes, brain fog and sleep disruption. Yet for many women, particularly Black, Asian, Caribbean, African, Middle Eastern and other culturally diverse women, the experience of waking at 3 a.m. is not solely biological. It is also historical. Cultural influences, family expectations and inherited survival strategies often shape how women experience this stage of life.

Across the world, men are dying years earlier than women, not because they are destined to, but because too many are living with preventable illness, untreated mental health challenges and cultural expectations that discourage them from asking for help. The greatest threat to men's health may not be disease alone. It may be the story society has taught men about what it means to be a man.

A report in the Financial Times on 25 May revealed that bank lending to British businesses has dropped to its lowest level in almost 30 years, as traditional institutions pull back from SMEs. On the surface, this is a story about banking. Underneath, it is a story about who gets to build an asset, pass something on and break the cycle of working hard for income that never compounds into wealth.

For many of us, no one warned us it was coming. Our mothers did not talk about it. Our aunties changed the subject. The leaflet at the GP surgery did not look like us and when our bodies started to shift, the sleepless nights, the anxiety, the rage, the grief we could not name, we did what we were raised to do. We got on with it. But getting on with it is costing us. The evidence now confirms what many of us have always felt.