In Politics 2011 will be judged a momentous year. By far the most important events have been the revolutions across the Arab world. Nobody 12 months was predicting that people power would subsume one dictator after another. Historians love to study and mull over revolutions. These will be no different. Yet these revolutions are work in progress. Syria is now on the brink of collapse. Who can say where this will lead. even in Russia the anti-Putin protests are growing. However it is to Iran and North Korea that we must pay most attention. They are both nuclear powers and offer a real threat to world stability.
At home it has also been a year of protest. Although it has done little to damage the standing in the polls of the coalition government. I imagine they will survive 2012. For me the question of Scottish independence is most fascinating. The announcement of a referendum this year could herald the break-up of the UK.
We live in interesting times, for sure.
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