You would have to possess a heart of stone not to weep with laughter at some of those who are now suddenly complaining about Brexit. It is a bit late for Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party, those lusty sponsors of the great experiment with the UK’s prosperity, to be wailing that they have been betrayed. I smiled to see that Roger Daltrey, the Leave-supporting lead singer of the Who, has joined the chorus of rock stars furious that the.
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Welcome to the final edition of the Guardian Weekly of a tumultuous year. With just a fortnight to go until the 1 January deadline, the UK and EU remained locked in talks this week to try to get a post-Brexit trade deal over the line. In the big story, Observer political editor Toby Helm and Tom Wall ask how on Earth it has come to this.
After that it’s our review of 2020: the year of Covid-19. There have been other seismic events – the Black Lives Matter protests; the election loss of Donald Trump and what may turn out to be a no-deal Brexit. But it’s the coronavirus, first officially reported on 31 December 2019, that impacted the lives of nearly every soul on the planet. In a special 2020 edition we look back at our lost year.
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