2020: The year everything changed - and yet nothing changed

Surpassing everything that has happened before

As we limp towards the end of 2020, there is a sense of shellshock across the world that we used to know.

I have written several times that, especially since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, the best forecast for what was going to happen was to say, "that'll never happen".  Ranging from banks going bust, to Boris Johnson leading the Tory Party to a virtual clean sweep throughout the North of England, to Leicester City winning the Premier League title, so many events would have seemed impossible just a short time before they became reality. Well, 2020 has surpassed anything that has gone before.  Less than a month away from 2021, we face the prospect of a Christmas like no other (and n...