It’s a topsy-turvy world we’re living in at the moment, writes Phil Hill.
Look at the parade of Prime Ministers we’ve had in recent years.
May, Johnson, Truss - (if you blinked, you missed her) - Sunak.
Time for a change, and in stutters Starmer.
Who knows, maybe he’ll be out by the end of the week, if he’s not already gone by the time you read this.
The two-party system dominated by Conservative and Labour - well, maybe 2.5 to be kind to the Lib Dems - was smashed by Reform and the Greens.
Then there’s Trump - rebukes Russia, then supports its invasion of Ukraine; loves the UK, hates the UK; wants Greenland, instead plumps for Venezuela; a peace lover who has halted goodness knows how many wars, then he’s threatening to blow up the whole of Iran, then there’s a ceasefire.
The once-respected mighty are falling like ninepins - Huw Edwards, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Peter Mandelson, Scott Mills, to name but a few.
In the last couple of years, we’ve lost our Queen, the Archbishop of Canterbury and a Pope, symbols of stability, although their replacements haven’t put a foot wrong so far.
Inflation was headed towards the government’s two per cent target, then bang, it’s off up again, tanked higher by rising oil prices.
Energy bills are yo-yoing up and down every three months.
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Arsenal, virtually assured of the Premier League title, then they get caught by Manchester City.
Let’s hope the predictability of England being among the favourites to win the World Cup without bringing football home since 1966 is turned on its head this year, and they get their hands on the trophy.
Nobody outside Somerset believes our cricketers can finally overcome their Cinderella chase of winning the County Championship for the first time in the club’s history.
Now that would be a good one to upset the doubters’ forecasts.
But there are still a few things that remain predictable.
Chaos at airports as we head into the summer season.
Junior doctors, as they were previously called, going on strike.
St George’s Day passing off with very little sign of celebration in England.
Keyboard warriors and conspiracy theorists putting in their two-pennyworth.
Yet, perhaps the most predictable of all is the unpredictability of our weather here in the UK - scorching spring days followed by a double-digit drop in the temperature, downpours ahead of heatwaves.
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