The Brexit march has renewed my optimism in being a journalist

So it is with our Final Say campaign, the Extinction Rebellion demos and the frankly astonishing way in which the usually somnolent British people are engaging in politics

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If there is one area where I can readily agree with Boris Johnson, it is the importance of optimism.

Not, of course, the blithe, baseless cheerfulness he tries to exude about a hard Brexit leading to Britain becoming the best place on the planet. But rather the principle of aspiring to it, and, for a natural pessimist like me, to recognise the cause for hope when it turns up.

So it is with our Final Say campaign, the Extinction Rebellion demos and the frankly astonishing way in which the usually somnolent British people are engaging in politics.