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journalism. Hello folks and welcome to our very special end of year review. Welcome. Yeah, how are we

going to do this, Matt? We've got three sorts of subjects, haven't we? We've got three categories.

Categories. Heroes, villains and the departed. So in a kind of quick fire, festive end of year way,

should we just go, should we start with heroes and go ping pong and I'll name one.

So you start yours and I'll do one of my own.

All right.

So first of all, we're going to go with heroes.

And my first hero is Donald Tusk, who has been, again,

having occupied the role from 2007 to 2014,

Polish Prime Minister since December the 13th.

And this is really important because he stopped the PAS, the Law and Justice Nationalist Party,

which has been in power since 2015.

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