In what I am trying to turn into a tradition, I usually take time at the end of the year to talk up the positives of the preceding 12 months. In 2017, I trumpeted the routing of Islamic State, a drop in measles deaths, and the spread of marriage equality. In 2018, I celebrated the expansion of healthcare in India, advances for cannabis decriminalisation around the world, and a record-smashing day for the England cricket team.
In 2019, I didn’t have to explain why everyone should be feeling upbeat; Jeremy Corbyn had just gone down to a hilarious landslide defeat. One of these days, I’ll stop watching videos of that exit poll coming in and laughing myself into bronchial impairment, but not today.
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