Jim Power: Hopefully, political sanity will come back

‘May you live in interesting times’ is an old Chinese curse that has resonated strongly around the world over the past year. 

On a whole variety of fronts, 2016 will live long in the memory and will feature strongly in the history books in the years to come, and not for good reasons.

First and foremost, it was a year when electorates around the world rejected what we would regard as conventional politics, and the world became a much more dangerous place.