It’s been a year dominated by Donald Trump. It has not yet been a full 12 months since he returned to the White House in January, but the changes he has brought about — both in the United States and around the world — seem barely imaginable in 2024.
Katherine Wayanssays the Guardian’s editor-in-chief Annie Kelly What it looked like from the editor’s chair: from the deployment of the National Guard on American streets, to the humiliation of Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, to the erosion of the rules that once governed peace and war.
In the UK, she describes the Labor government’s failure to tell its story and the missed opportunity after opportunity to address the rise of reform and the far right. “Politics is about timing, and I think a lot of those opportunities have been missed,” she says of the government’s notable silence over the summer.
It has not been a year without hope, from the unexpected success of left-wing figures like Zahran Mamdani and Zach Polanski, to the Guardian’s decisive victories in court defending its reporting, in a case described as a landmark ruling for #MeToo journalism.
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