We Have to Make Sense of 2010 Before We Can Look Forward to 2011 ; New Year Should Be a Time of Reflection

Hull Daily Mail › January 03, 2011

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At this time of year, we're usually looking forward, but I often think of something my history teacher once said.

I was perhaps 12, but I recall it vividly. He handed me my, no doubt defaced exercise book and told the class that in order to understand how we got here, to this moment, we must first make sense of history. And it's true.

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We Have to Make Sense of 2010 Before We Can Look Forward to 2011 ; New Year Should Be a Time of Reflection

While at new year we tend to look forward, to plan holidays, make resolutions, really, the decisions we make are shaded by what led up to the...

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