Happy everything, everyone

Thanks for reading

I just wanted to wish you all the best for the season and to say thank you for your support and company here at The Future of Everything. The newsletter has, over the last two years, built an amazing subscriber list that ranges across the political spectrum, and it is my privilege to have the ear of such a diverse and engaged group of people.

I’m taking a bit of break between now and the New Year, but Tanya and I aren’t taking our proper annual leave until April when we will visit our son, Noah, who lives in France.¹ So, things might go a bit quieter then.

I won’t do one of those big, year-in-review type posts, but as we are going into an election year, ugh—having just come off a major election in the United States, double ugh—I thought I’d jot down a few quick thoughts on the current state of play, or some of my perennial themes, to remind myself as much as anything.

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