Far-fetched scenarios have come true and we must react well

We have to find ways to speak up, to band together and to assert that we will not let democracy wither, writes Fergus Finlay

I had decided I wasn’t going to do it again this year. The endless search for eye of newt and toe of frog. The lonely hunt for the three witches and their cauldron. All for the sake of informing readers who don’t believe me about what is going to happen this year. When my predictions are so unappreciated, I reasoned, why would I bother?

But then a friend on Facebook sent me the column I wrote this time last year — a column that even I had consigned to the dustbin of history. And as I reread it, I realised how outlandish some of my predictions were for 2016.