What I got right, and wrong, about the world in 2020 In the case of Donald Trump’s post-election assault on democracy, I wish I’d been less prescient.
Joe Biden was declared the winner over Donald Trump in the US presidential election The thing that I got most wrong this year – and I didn’t put this in writing, so you’ll just have to trust me when I say that I missed this entirely – was about a virus in Wuhan, China. I had no idea that the early outbreaks would herald the beginning of a global pandemic. I had no idea, if I am being very honest, that it would affect me not just as a piece of news, but a fact of life.