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Beavers, books and my bottom: 25 things worth celebrating about 2025
The Observer
|December 28, 2025
It’s not been an amazing year, all things considered. But even in a non-amazing year, life contains a lot to celebrate and enjoy.
So here's what's given me hope and cheer:
1 The recovery of Agnes the beaver has been one of the only things to make me feel reliably good this year. She was brought into an Indiana wildlife sanctuary, The Pipsqueakery, emaciated and covered in maggots, and they have lovingly nursed her back to health.
2 You can still take a course at the Open University. I have just finished my MA in classics and got a distinction - I am delighted and proud.
3 In general, it is so wonderfully easy to learn things now compared to when I was at school - we used to hoard French magazines from rare trips. Now I can listen to as much French radio as I want, whenever I want.
4 Green sea turtles are no longer on the endangered list.
5 The world of YouTube lectures - James Marriott has a brilliant list on his Substack, Cultural Capital - brings us all education for free.
6 The majesty of wind farms - I love to see them in the landscape, as glorious as the windmills of old.
7 Misha Glenny has been chosen to take over In Our Time from Melvyn Bragg - a brilliant apolitical appointment of a man with a fantastically wide and interesting intellectual range. I'm thrilled that this beloved programme is in safe hands.
8 China's emissions have reduced off the back of its sustainable energy policies.
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