Here's To The Next One
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Another twelve-month passes and the customary hopes for a better New Year, this time round at least, are truly heartfelt and deep, mediated by the knowledge of just how precarious life really is. We have experienced, globally a sense of restriction and powerlessness; trammelled as we have been by the invisible forces of Covid. We have experienced globally, an awareness and greatly overdue recognition of the rights of people of all races and creeds; highlighting the institutionalised prejudices and injustice at the heart of our telling of history; a partial, wholly biassed male, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant confection born of money, privilege and exploitation. We have experienced globally, during this pandemic, the very best of human endeavour, empathy and kindness alongside the very worst of our species' cant, hypocrisy and self-interest in politics and business worldwide. The very bastions of entitlement that formed our twisted histories and our current reactions to them have be