What it means to be a neighbour

If we stop seeing someone as our neighbour and instead diminish them to just their identity, democracy will drift away from both our constitution and our neighbourhood.

Polarisation does not arrive suddenly. It does not even appear from afar like a procession. It comes quietly, like dampness seeping into the walls of an old house and going unnoticed for a long time. Gradually, it erodes the foundations of structures—yours and your neighbours’ too.