Aside from marking our 12th anniversary, our March issue – pictured here and on newsstands from Thursday – is also something of a collector’s item as it will be our last (for now, at least) to be printed in the UK. As many industries weigh up manufacturing in a limbo Brexit world, we're taking our April issue to the presses of Neef + Stumme in the heart of Niedersachsen (otherwise known as Lower Saxony) to ensure that there are no hiccups in delivery and quality. You will note a few improvements when the next issue lands, many of them the result of state-of-the-art presses, fine German paper stock and a few other tweaks that we’ll leave as a surprise.

It’s all change in Lebanon – or is it? The good news is that the country finally has a government and, even better, there are four women in it, up from only one in the last cabinet (in which even the women’s minister was a man). In a regional first, the top-flight post of interior minister has been given to Raya al-Hassan. “This is hugely significant,” says Carmen Geha, a professor at the American University of Beirut. But as for whether they’ll add fresh impetus to the search for solutions to the country’s biggest problems, from a mounting debt crisis to the Syrian refugee issue, she says they’re more likely to echo the usual party lines. “But I do have faith that they will be able to pioneer new policy and programmatic conversations, such as the one Hassan has begun on civil marriage.”