Just when things were getting a bit dull, with only Brexit, Covid and climate change to worry about, along came 2022 bringing a war in Ukraine, resurgent inflation, an energy crisis, a tech crash and an impending global recession.

In the corporate world bosses are trying to entice their staff back to the office post Covid, banking juniors are “quiet quitting” their jobs, financial regulators go on strike and even tyrannical American boss Cyrus bunks off work to get married.