Lessons Not Learned In this April 29, 1975 file photo, mobs of Vietnamese people scale the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, trying to get to the helicopter pickup zone, just before the ...

The courage to plant yourself on what you truly believe – not right, not left, but a third way, which happens to be the place in American politics where solutions are found.

Dr Tony O’ Sullivan, co-chair of Keep Our NHS Public, said the Covid inquiry has demonstrated: “Lessons have not been learnt. We cannot afford to neglect our public health protective system.

Now, Mai is heading into the next 12 months with a new perspective. “Instead of following my own rules from before, I want to leave that there,” she says of lessons learned in 2024.