Kate Hawkesby: My final thoughts on a testing year

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Dec 1, 2022 · 3m

So it’s been a long hard year.

I don’t know why this year feels harder than last year. I mean last year we had Covid for goodness sake, and lockdowns, and I guess a lot of us thought it couldn’t get much worse than this – but this year has been like a bad hangover that won’t go away.

Inflation, cost of living crisis, petrol prices, housing prices, health crisis, mental health crisis, surge in crime.

I mean it’s an ugly laundry list of stuff that’s made 2022 not quite the shiny new prospect many of us would have been hoping for this time last year.

It feels like a bit of collective PTSD after…