Around 1420, by means of a ‘peep-hole’ and mirror, the entrepreneurial Italian master-builder, Filippo Brunelleschi, demonstrated the principles of perspective view. Six centuries later, Perspective acts as both society’s peep-hole and mirror: a lens focused on the great issues of the moment whilst simultaneously surveying and reflecting our views on them. Our aim is not to so much to report, as to report back. This is what makes Perspective unique, and the reason that in 2020 we are the country’s fastest growing current affairs title.