  Particle physics is sometimes described as going through a crisis, notably
because of the continued lack of discovery of physics beyond the Standard
Model, despite the LHC having operated at close to maximal energy for some
years now. Here, I argue that we should not underestimate the significance of
recent progress and future prospects in the Higgs sector of the Standard Model.
This is especially the case for the Yukawa interactions and the structure of
the Higgs potential, both of which are unlike any sector that has been
established and stress-tested before in particle physics. Other topics that I
touch on include the still substantial scope for increasing the reach of
searches at LHC, the increasing role of precision in hadron-collider physics
and the rich interplay that is developing between heavy-ion and proton-proton
physics.
