Most news, by definition, is unpredictable.
But there are, in the course of a day, month, year, a number of events that journalists know are coming. We call these diary events.
Some are bigger than others. Some can be predicted to be significant, even seismic.
While we don’t know yet the full impact of these events on the world, we can predict with some certainty that the following will help shape the course of 2022 and, possibly, the years beyond:
Queen’s jubilee
On 6 February, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will have been on the throne for 70 years and later in the year the country will celebrate her platinum jubilee.
In time, her reign may define the epoch, as Britain has gone from a largely hierarchical imperial power to a culturally and socially diverse modern nation.
Much analysis will be written about how the lives of the people in…