A Quarter Century of Shifting Sands: Politics in the 21st Century

25 years into the 21st Century, let's run through some highs and lows and pretty much everything else unimaginable!

The dawn of the new millennium arrived with cautious optimism, or as we now know it, blissful ignorance. Y2K anxieties proved unfounded (sorry, doomsday preppers), and the world, seemingly at the peak of globalisation, basked in the warm glow of interconnectedness. Spoiler alert: we were about to learn that "interconnected" doesn't always mean "playing …