Pay no attention to those year-in-review pieces. You don’t need any reminder about what happened. You were there.

Getting the first sentence right is always trouble, and so we must stop to admire a perfect opener wherever we encounter one, like Stefan Collini’s recent essay in the London Review of Books: “A tax system is a political philosophy expressed in numbers.” Read on, it’s a great piece.

The Spectator gets it right in their final editorial of the year: distribution remains the challenge, but there’s never been a better time to be alive.

It was an unexpected joy to listen to these two nerds talk about rockets.