I would like to wish you a very Happy New Year and I really mean the “happy” part of that greeting.   There is so much bad news on a wide range of fronts that it is all too easy to fall into despondency, complaining that nothing works properly and suggesting it’s impossible to do anything about it. That’s the road to a spiral of depression which doesn’t help anyone.   Whilst we have to be realistic about the things that are going on around us, I really hope that in 2026 we ca