DOMESTIC concerns are of course important, but so too are international ones – and there are many.
Putin is attempting to pummel Ukraine back to the Stone Age, with missiles falling daily on cities and power stations, a third of which are now destroyed.
Drones lent by Iran are increasing the carnage, with Israel now expressing disquiet at the new alliance between Tehran and Moscow.
Russian troops are massing on the border of Belarus, raising fears of a renewed attack on Kyiv and fresh support for Moscow.
And Western energy supplies are squeezed as Russia turns the screw, cutting off all gas supplies to the West, underlining our vulnerability which, in turn, is creating dissent between allies.
That is further exacerbated by disagreements over the type and extent of support for Ukraine, with France preferring negotiation to the action demanded by, for example, the Baltic States.
Meanwhile, the US threatens massive retaliation for any nuclear attack, battlefield or otherwise.
This warning comes as NATO nuclear drills over Western Europe began on Monday.
A similar exercise is being carried out by Russia and, although neither involves live bombs, the situation is potentially incendiary.
Further East, other dangers are coming into focus.
China has reconfirmed Xi Jinping as leader for the third time and, as GCHQ head Jeremy Fleming warned strongly last week, China, not Russia, is the “national security issue that will define our future,” with technology becoming a “battleground for control, for values and for influence”.
The point that I hope I have made is that this intense fascination with our navel must not detract from the very real and very present dangers that face us internationally.