How the Guardian covered 2022
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The Guardian
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:08.6 | Today, the events that made 2022 with Guardian Editor-in-Chief, |
| 0:13.1 | Catherine Viner. |
| 0:20.2 | Whatever we call this time that we live in, |
| 0:22.4 | we're events move dizzying speed and a whole era can last as little as 44 days. |
| 0:30.1 | The consensus might be that 2022 was a year where things got worse. |
| 0:48.0 | A major land war in Europe. |
| 0:49.8 | Record-breaking summer temperatures. |
| 0:54.7 | So within five minutes they said that our house could be saved. |
| 0:59.2 | What is worth more? Art or life? |
| 1:03.7 | The end of an entire age in the UK. |
| 1:06.6 | From the great Abbey and into the Sun. |
| 1:09.1 | From this Abbey, past Buckingham Palace and out to Wellington Arch. |
| 1:20.3 | Millions of people at risk of falling below the poverty line. |
| 1:23.6 | I promise you you'll not be homeless even if we've got a city here with you here. |
| 1:30.4 | I promise you darling. |
| 1:32.2 | And even the purest things feeling tainted by scandal. |
| 1:39.9 | Today I feel gay. |
| 1:43.5 | Today I feel a migrant worker. |
| 1:47.4 | Champions of the world's greatest gay. |
| 1:51.7 | And you might think the combination of these events would have left people feeling hopeless. |
| 1:57.6 | Like they just wanted to give up. |
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