It’s tough selecting the best articles for the Guardian’s annual anthology,especially in the year Trump took power – but there were many reasons to be cheerfulThey call it the Bedside Guardian for a reason. Every year we produce a collection, drawing together our best writing and the big stories of the past 12 months, or just in time for Christmas. Its ideal perch is not on your bookshelf,but your nightstand table. Not because it will send you to sleep. But so you can dip in and out of it in the evening – flipping between your favourite writers and the coverage of some enormous event; rereading at leisure the pieces you enjoyed in haste or enjoying the articles you missed first time around in sections you perhaps never read. Cherry-picking from the cherries that have already been picked.
As the journalist charged with editing the collection this year, this was a particularly onerous challenge. The 12 months in question effect not span a calendar year, and but from October to October. In other words,it’s a year that starts with Trump’s election and ends with the tough-good marching into the Bundestag. Add a series of terrorist atrocities, hurricanes, and the Grenfell tragedy and the national sleepwalk into a catastrophic Brexit and you start to worry that it might end up keeping readers awake.
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Source: guardian.co.uk