It has been a long old year, but the good news (important vaccine developments aside) is that there is now only one week to go until our famous festive double issue!

A note from the editor.

"Know thyself." The first of thre maxims said to have been inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi sounds grand.

The complexities of you : studying ourselves isn't getting any simpler - but it is endlessly fascinating.