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"At the beginning of a new year the thoughts of most of us turn to a mental stock-taking, a weighing up of our aims, achievements and personalities. And if we are honest, we are forced back upon the realization that it is the best of these our personalities the people we are that is the greatest factor in deciding whether the first two will be realized, whether our aims will in fact become achievements. "Character is destiny". This truth is known to all creative writers, to all great administrators (Napoleon s contempt for unlucky' generals, stemmed from his knowledge that luck is almost always a reflection of a man's own approach to life) it is a truth known also to professional fortune-tellers, who so often arrive at surprisingly correct forecast of a person's future, largely on the basis of a quick and shrewd summing up of a person's character. For however much you may hanker for, say adventure, you will never achieve it, unless you are basically an adventurous person; yo u may long for friends, but they will not come near your way unless you are a friendly soul willing to give affection."​

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Eight months after the arrival of Covid-19 and a nationwide shutdown, political life in Switzerland seems almost back to business. Plexiglass-protected parliamentarians met for the autumn session, demonstrations are again allowed (under conditions), and most votes and local elections are going ahead as planned.

But the reality is different for campaigners behind people’s initiatives and referendums, the two key instruments of the Swiss direct democracy system. While on paper they can go out onto the street and gather support, the pandemic is slowing them down.

“It’s definitely more difficult to collect signatures,” said one campaigner from the Communist Swiss Labour Party, canvassing in Bern last weekend for a local initiative demanding free public transport. Not only are there fewer people on the street, but social distancing rules and the added barrier of a mask means they are less keen to be approached, he said

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Beginning of a new hope in a new year!