I was drawn to Jonathan Freedland’s article (‘How do we live in this terrible world?’ a reader asked me. Here’s the only answer I have, 20 December), as it is a question that’s continually on my mind. There’s much substance in his well-informed piece, though the ending’s quite simple and resonates with my own take: “Perhaps by... read full story
"Perhaps by accepting that it's the only one we have and that it's not always so terrible – that sometimes, even quite often, it can be rather beautiful."