History of the Present

History of the Present

Good riddance to 2025. Hope for 2026.

And season's greetings to you all...

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Timothy Garton Ash
Dec 21, 2025
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History of the Present (week ending 21 December 2025)

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Dear Reader

It has been a pleasure to chronicle the History of the Present over the last year in your company. (All 56,922 of you according to my Substack dashboard today.) But I'm sure we're all glad to see the back of 2025. At least it ended with one small positive no…

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