Peter Hamilton: Don't look back in anger…

This is the time of year when we look back reflect. We'll see ‘Quizzes of the Year', ‘Books of the Year', ‘Sports Personality of the Year' (though we should obviously protest the absence of Hamilton - ‘not in my name…'). By any reckoning it's been another incredibly hard year. More people have died from Covid in 2021 than in 2020 - each death an individual tragedy. We've seen extreme weather events, democracy under threat, widening inequalities and increasingly polarised societies. Against that backdrop, it's not necessarily easy to find positives, but it's important to look for them....