Trump, Brexit, climate change: despair is everywhere. Yet still I can marvel at our humanity | Jonathan Freedland

From the response to Windrush to scientific wonders – at times like this we need to remind ourselves what we are capable of

Lord knows, there are reasons to be cheerless this Christmas. If you’re British, you have your pick of sources of misery. You could be anxious that we are less than 100 days away from a car-crash, no-deal Brexit that will see us short of medicine and food, the public advised to “vary their diet” to cope with diminished supplies, our ports jammed and the army on standby. Or you might despair at the poverty that sees children going to school hungry in one of the world’s richest countries, as a homeless man dies on the very doorstep of parliament.

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