MANY of the main reasons to be cheerful in 2023 are negative ones. For instance, Liz Truss is not our prime minister and it is looking increasingly unlikely that any of us will need to take the tech bros promoting cryptocurrency and NFTs seriously; above all, it’s not 2022 anymore. After the monstrous half-decade of 2016-21, of Brexit, Trump and Covid, you would think we were due a breather but last year brought us Russia’s war in Ukraine, a cost-of-living crisis fed by soaring energy costs and what seemed like an endless stream of effluentent in our political discourse and our waterways.
Though it doesn’t look like things will get drastically better in the immediate future, there are still reasons for hope. Eyes down, here we go.
