2017
Putin plays an inscrutable strategy against the west while allegations are made concerning Russia's interference in elections to destabilise the west. What's his game?
Early in the year, it looks like Jeremy Corbyn is taking the Labour party towards self-destruction, ably supported by his ally at Unite - Len McCluskey (whose re-election was itself brought under question amid allegations of vote rigging).
Brexit looks absolutely safe in the hands of the Three Brexiteers - Davis, Johnson and Fox - given the task of negotiating the most difficult and complex set of talks this side of Versailles. Nothing can possibly go wrong. 
Theresa May announces a shock U-turn - a general election after categorically promising not to. It looks a sure fire double whammy to end Corbyn's hopes. 
it looks like the Hard Brexiters have won the day as Theresa May suggests that we will leave the Customs Union and Single Market. Expect large-scale deregulation, just as Farage, Johnson, Gove and their moneybags - Arron Banks - would have wished.
an election is called and Theresa May repeats over and over the need for a "strong and stable" government in these troubled times. However, the Union looks weaker and wobblier by the day as Sturgeon promises Indyref2. May is playing a dangerous hand.
Theresa May makes increasingly belligerent and scary remarks about how hard Brexit will be. Little Britain will be all alone in the deep blue Atlantic Sea with only the idiotically capricious Trump for company. Here be sharks. 
As the weeks wear on, Corbyn climbs ever closer in the opinion polls towards May, who has run the worst campaign in living memory, during which she reveals that the naughtiest thing she ever did was to run through a cornfield. Can he "make hay" of May?
Theresa May finally seals the deal with the DUP to cobble together a government. It involves a billion quid's worth of bribe money to keep them on board. So there is a "magic money tree" after all.
The summer holidays kicked off with some of the worst weather since February, heralding "a family of depressions" ahead. The parallels with Theresa May's vulnerable state of mind were too obvious. Her cabinet - Hammond. Fox, Davis and Johnson - began to s
Keir Starmer announces that Labour's policy on Europe would look considerably more like a soft Brexit than the hard one assumed by the Tories; a long transition period after the official divorce, involving membership of the Customs Union and the Single Ma
Robert Mueller is appointed to look into the Trump's Russian connections. Flynn starts to sing like a canary. It gets closer to POTUS as the days go by. 29/10/17 The Independent
Catalonia holds an illegal referendum. Rajoy sends in the riot police. Everyone overreacts. Everyone seems to want gladiatorial glory, while forgetting the bull (Spain). 30/10/17 The Independent
The OBR predicts a gloomy year ahead. Hammond accepts their pessimism. Meanwhile, May is simply trying to stay in her job. Is it time to ditch the mountain guide? Or would that be fatal? 31/10/17 The Independent
