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Some not entirely uncheery end-of-year thoughts

I’m not on holidays until February, but things will slow down around here for Christmas and New Year, and I hope they do at your place too. Some of that is down to the fact that our flat was flooded when the hot-water system in the apartment next door collapsed, so we’re in the process of moving everything out so we can replace our floor and the odd wall.

We’re fine, though.

I wanted to thank you all so much for your support this year, which has seen the newsletter grow despite the collapse of Twitter from where so many subscribers used to come. Your willingness to share posts and give gift subscriptions and otherwise encourage people into reading and signing on here has picked up the slack and it is a real privilege to be able to write for such an audience as we have developed together here.

Thank you all.

To finish up the year, let me take you back to what I wrote in Voices Of Us, my post-election book that tried to explain how and why we got rid of the Morrison catastrophe and decided …