"It has been a year dominated by Donald Trump. It has not yet even been 12 full months since his return to the White House in January but already the changes he has wrought in the US and around the world would have seemed scarcely conceivable in 2024. Katharine Viner, the Guardian's editor-in-chief, tells Annie Kelly what it has looked like from the editor's chair:"
"In the UK, she describes a Labour government failing to tell its story and missing chance after chance to tackle the rise of Reform and the far right. Politics is about timing,' she says of the government's notable silence over the summer, and I think a lot of those opportunities were missed.' Of course, it has not been a year without hope, from the unexpected success of leftwing figures such as Zohran Mamdani and Zack Polanski,"
Donald Trump's return to the White House in January produced rapid changes across the US and around the world. Deployments of the National Guard on American streets and the public humiliation of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office signalled a shift in presidential conduct. The rules that once governed peace and war have eroded. In the UK, a Labour government repeatedly failed to tell its story and missed opportunities to counter the rise of Reform and the far right. There were moments of hope, including unexpected leftwing electoral successes and landmark legal victories defending journalism and #MeToo reporting.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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