2024's anniversaries: A sneak preview of the new year's nostalgia

It’s 15 years since Obama became president and five decades since Watergate. Wondering what other retrospectives and anniversaries you’ll be reading about this year? Suzanne Harrington takes a look

Friends, ABBA and Frozen: nostalgia isn't what it used to be

Hello and welcome to 2024! In this perma-cycle of doom, where each year seems to exceed the one before it in terms of awfulness – did it all begin to disintegrate when David Bowie left the planet in 2016? – let us look mistily backward towards more innocent times, with Vaseline rubbed thickly on the lens, while consigning 2023 to the dustbin and hoping that 2024 brings more peace to the world. 

Got your rose-tinted glasses handy? Wipe them off and put them on, and let’s pretend everything was great in the past too.