The calendar with its division of time into neat compartments is somewhat artificial, too neatly mathematical to be anything more than symbolic short hands for denoting the passage of time and events. The high drama of political upsets in 2016 such as Brexit and Donald Trump’s election into the United States’ presidency, cannot be understood outside the broader ferment of right wing populism and the distrust of big government, long in gestation.
That said, it is also true that happenings in any particular year, even the little unnoticed ones, often hold the key to unveiling a dimension at least, of national character and predisposition, of
