Apologies for a more personal piece – we’ll be back to the politics and international relations soon (and there is a bit of policy in this one at the end I promise). But this week is a big anniversary for me. It will be a year since I went into hospital for a serious, but routine, operation and ended up a few hours, and a brilliant surgery team, away from dying. A year on feels like a good moment to look back and think about what I learned from the experience and how it changed me (and didn’t).