Good riddance, 2020

This is the year life got put on hold, when nearly everything that could go wrong did

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Good riddance, 2020. Thanks for nothing.

You will long be remembered for being a special kind of awful, a year when nearly anything that could go wrong did its level best to do so.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on December 27, 2020, with the headline Good riddance, 2020. Subscribe