2021: a year in wine, cheese and sleaze
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:10.8 | Today, 20-21. |
| 0:14.0 | If you don't laugh, you'll cry. |
| 0:16.4 | We look back at a year in politics with John Crase. |
| 0:20.0 | What a 12 months it's been. |
| 0:30.0 | And what a time to be a political sketchwriter. |
| 0:34.0 | Just think back to January 2021. |
| 0:38.0 | How far away it seems. |
| 0:40.0 | And yet, oddly familiar. |
| 0:44.0 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:46.0 | I want to update everybody about vaccines. |
| 0:48.0 | John Crase, the Guardian's political sketchwriter. |
| 0:52.0 | Let's rewind to the beginning of the year. |
| 0:54.0 | A new variant of COVID was running rampant. |
| 0:58.0 | Infections were on the rise. |
| 1:00.0 | And you were watching as the Prime Minister announced new COVID measures. |
| 1:04.0 | Can you remind me what your very astute political analysis was of the situation then? |
| 1:10.0 | I'm not sure it was astute. |
| 1:12.0 | This was, again, a government that looked like it had been caught on the hopper bit. |
| 1:18.0 | When everybody looks at the position people understand overwhelmingly that we have no choice. |
| 1:26.0 | What we all thought, I think, was that if we can just get through three or four months until we're all vaccinated, |
| 1:33.0 | we can maybe see the back of the coronavirus, how right we were. |
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