We live in the worst of times - but amid the darkness good things happened in 2018 | Brigid Delaney

The kids revolted, Facebook was humbled, house prices fell, a football team was rescued from a cave and ... Prince Harry found happiness

Looking back over 2018, weirdly the things that are the easiest to see are the darkest.

Write a year in review, and what first springs to mind is American nihilism in the form of Donald Trump, mass shootings and the opioid epidemic. In Britain it’s the Brexit quagmire and rolling political crises, and in Australia it’s the palpable disgust at the political class as they roll prime ministers, lock children up in brutal offshore detention camps, impregnate staffers, and treat their female colleagues with disdain.

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from Lifestyle | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2Q9Lfc7

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