Welcome to 2025! If you have a seat belt, it is probably a good idea to fasten it now – it’s going to be a wild ride.

There will be joy and sorrow, death and birth, war and peace, natural disasters, triumph and defeat. Just like every year.

I’m simultaneously anticipating and dreading what the year has in store, Just like every year.

To start the year, before getting onto the serious commentary in this space that I see on the horizon, s few images to lighten the passage from one year to the next.