The pound is now almost worth the same as a dollar and the euro, the IMF is having kittens, and reporters are saying that pension funds would have been insolvent by Wednesday afternoon if the Bank of England hadn't stepped in. Well, at least you know now that whenever you start a new job it'll never go as badly as the first three weeks Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have had. These, though, are the best memes of 2022 we've seen so far. The World Cup in Qatar looks like it'll bring solid returns too, as will the return of Glastonbury after three years away. With so much pomp, ceremony and late licenses come ample crossover memes. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee in the summer will be a unique celebration of a monarch's longevity, and a unique four-day bender from Thursday to Sunday in early June.
What should meme futures speculators invest in this year? The joy of the best memes, of course, is that they always take you by surprise – nobody could have foreseen Bean Dad or Rishi Sunak admitting to a child that he was a "coke addict" – but there are a few flashpoints that savvy meme brokers will be building portfolios around. Though 2021 was a fine vintage for memes – the Handforth Parish Council meeting, Bernie and his mittens, sea shanty TikTok, the tanker that broke the Suez Canal – 2022 has started with the kind of giddy, fast-paced memeing only the third year of a pandemic and simmering resentment of everyone in charge can provide.
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