It’s been quite a year.

There’s the ongoing war in Ukraine, the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and we’ve had three different Prime Ministers.

And while global health scares appear to have taken something of a backseat, they’ve been replaced in the headlines by the cost-of-living crisis.

Delve a little deeper, and a year that has seen record temperatures has also brought warnings of a ‘climate catastrophe’.

Amid all this, there has also been a succession of brands and individuals that have found themselves in the media spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

In this blog that has been converted to audio, we look at the crises that stood out for us in 2022. And the lessons we can learn from them.

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