This is 2025; Common sense is overdue for a global comeback

US president-elect Donald Trump.

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It is customary to run into the beginning of a new year in a column with a certain amount of fervour and anticipation.

You know, to make January seem like a dynamic departure from the endlessly unspooling ribbon of life and human civilisation. We’re not doing that today. I rather propose to carefully walk into 2025, a year full of continuations that will bear keeping an eye and a brain out for.