Here it is, four weeks into the new year, and my first column of 2020. Hopefully this will be the last sad one for a while, but there’s no ignoring the elephant in the room.
I was quite happy to see 2019 go. It was a year of turmoil, sadness and confusion, and I imagine I looked like the proverbial deer in the headlights through most of it. But we are still standing, although with heavy weariness a…