What we do here matters, and we can do better. To do better, we must be informed by our past. As a mother, I am motivated by my commitments to my children, and that means caring for the world that they will inherit. My children ask a lot of questions about their world. My son, Felix, has the awkward habit of asking people if they voted for Labour, and my daughter, Orla, wants to know why there is no musical about the Treaty, when the US has Hamilton.