Sorry to be gloomy but our twin diseases – Brexit and Covid – aren’t going away any time soon

It’s not the media’s job to be ‘boosterish’ or make anyone feel better about a rotten situation. Have a happy new year, anyhow, writes Sean O’Grady

The two stories of 2020 that journalists had to cover every damn day (Getty/iStock)

There’s a great old saying that a politician complaining about the press is like a sailor complaining about the weather. For a journalist, complaining about the news is much the same, and thus a pretty futile exercise.  

Still, that’s not going to stop me from having a quick whinge about Brexit and Covid, the twin diseases of 2020 that we’ve had to cover every damn day. To put it at its mildest, it’s been a bit monotonous.  

So am I glad that 2021 is on the horizon and we will soon see the back of the pair of ’em? Well, I might be if I thought it was true, but I suspect neither will disappear.