It is customary at this time of the year to take a not-too-serious look back at the events of the past 12 months. It is not that easy because it's been a pretty miserable year highlighted by the madness of the war in Ukraine.
Frankly we are at the end of another annus horribilis as the late Queen Elizabeth would have put it.
Indeed, it was a year dominated by the death of the Grand Old Lady in September. She had been such a fixture in British lives for so long it had felt like she would go on forever.
