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Reflections on 2020 By Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley | Wednesday 16 December 2020 at 14:20 Sisters Ella and Leona Lewis start a minute’s silence at the We Grieve ‘memori-wall’ installed on Clapton Common over the summer. Photograph: Fran Hales At the beginning of 2020, as we emerged from winter, we slowly began to notice the news coverage of the eternally fruitless Brexit negotiations had given way to something else entirely. Increasingly perplexed and anxious scientists and medics lined up to speak of an invisible assailant which was edging ever closer. This assailant, they said, w...

Last modified on Tue 15 Dec 2020 17.14 EST A subdued, frustrated, yet resigned atmosphere permeated Shoreditch, east London, on Tuesday night as afterwork punters savoured their final evening before the capital entered the most restrictive tier of coronavirus rules at short notice. “The government seems to have a really antiquated view of going out drinking and hospitality,” said Alex Irving, who works in PR, sat outside Ever After, a bar on Hoxton Square, following an announcement in the Commons less than 24 hours earlier that would force bars and restaurants to close from midnight. “I...