It is just under three months since the start of 2022 and my last newsletter. In it, I imagined new resolutions for the coming year and wished myself - and wished you - a happy new year and a timid exit from two years of Covid pandemic that has marked us deeply.

Hopes for a social, human, economic recovery seem to have been swept away on the night of 24 February 2022. Indeed they have been swept away for the Ukrainian people brutally attacked by the anachronistic madness of an autocrat turned warmongering dictator.