Even amid the despair that haunts our world, good can come out of evil. We need to believe that, for the sake of our future<\/p>\n
What brought us hope and joy in 2023? Writers share their stories<\/a>Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010<\/p>\n A story is told about a British ambassador and his fellow diplomats at the UN who were asked of their hopes for the festive season. \u201cA box of the finest handmade chocolates,\u201d the British official replied, only to find to his embarrassment that other countries\u2019 ambassadors had listed \u201cPeace on Earth\u201d, \u201cStability\u201d and \u201cAn end to world poverty\u201d.<\/p>\n At this time of year, facing a troubled and fractured world, our hopes cannot reflect only personal wishes. They have to be focused on solving the monumental crises paralysing our planet \u2013 the interminable Russia-Ukraine war, the carnage in the Middle East, and rising poverty and inequality at home and abroad.<\/p>\n Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010<\/p>\n Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even amid the despair that haunts our world, good can come out of evil. We need to believe that, for the sake of our future What brought us hope and joy in 2023? Writers share their storiesGordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010 A story is told about a British ambassador and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}