Thank You, Monty Python: Reflections on the Last Decade

That was quite a decade, friends.

(Note: I am aware that, since there was never a “year 0”, decades *technically* run 1-10 – as in, 2011-2020. But, since I’ve never heard someone consider “1950” as being part of the 40s, or “1990” not being the start of the 90s, I’m counting the last decade as “all the years with ‘1’ as the third number”. 2010-2019. The end.)

The past ten years have included neither the meteoric rise nor the neat, orderly, swift progression of events I...