I wonder if you have ever suffered from the “impostor syndrome”—the sense that, although you occupy a role within a community of some kind, you’re not the real deal and you don’t really belong. Others are genuine and others fit in. But you’re just faking it—and soon enough everyone will find out. The feeling is common enough.

Approximately 360,000 babies are born each day around the world. The birth of a child is always a joyful thing. But the arrival of most babies won’t become headline news.

We live today in a world short on hope and amply supplied with despair. For many, this has been a rather bleak year. We are all looking for hope in the midst of seemingly out of control world news. As Christmas approaches, we hear music in the background reminding us that comfort is on offer. 

Having spent so many years and decades enjoying relatively easy global travel, the many months of limited travel during the pandemic were rather unsettling for all of us. We couldn’t get to where we wanted to go—not without trouble and difficulty.

The Queen’s Coronation in 1953 was the first coronation in history to be a truly global spectacle. It was broadcast in 39 languages to 200 million viewers worldwide.