It has been a year dominated by Donald Trump. It has not yet even been 12 full months since his return to the White House in January but already the changes he has wrought – both in the US and around the world – seemed scarcely conceivable in 2024. Katharine Viner, the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, tells Annie Kelly what it has looked like from the editor’s chair: from the deployment of the national guard on American streets, to the humiliation of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, to the erosion of the rules that once governed peace and war. In the UK, she describes a Labour government failing to tell its story and missing chance after chance to tackle the rise of Reform and the far right. Support the Guardian today: theguardian.com/todayinfocuspod

Source: The Guardian December 24, 2025 07:19 UTC