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In defence of 2020

1 January 2021

2:43 AM

1 January 2021

2:43 AM

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.

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