Yes, in many ways, 2025 was a terrible year. And, «you can’t fact-check people out of a feeling», as Angus Hervey writes. Still, his annual collection of overlooked achievements and positive developments does an excellent job of telling the other part of the story of 2025 that is also true. «These things happen slowly, invisibly, accrued by decades of incremental gains. Cathedral-building, not crisis. There are no villains, no victims, no dramatic turning points.»

From Weekly Filet #557, in January 2026.