By the End of the Century

What does that conjure up to someone who is in any case already 64 years old?

But John McDonnell was really just making an observation. He was not advocating a borderless world.

He was observing that, long after he was dead (and, for that matter, long after I was dead), there might very well be one, in fact even if not in name.

Policy would then have to deal with that reality, as it has to deal with all sorts of other realities.

I suspect that he might be right.