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Looking ahead by looking back
Musician ROBERT WYATT reflects on some of the highs and lows of the last 12 months and looks forward to the year ahead

I've heard it claimed that journalism is the first draft of history.

Maybe that's the problem with our mainstream news industry - better if history were the first draft of journalism, surely?

So to look ahead, I look back, to see a bit of how we got here.

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