Last January The Diary sensationally predicted that Dewey and LeBoeuf would become Dewey & LeBoeuf, global financial markets would go into meltdown and Alesha would beat that smarmy orange chap in the final of Strictly Come Dancing. Sadly, none of those uncannily accurate forecasts made it into last year’s Guide To The Year Ahead, which was mostly a bunch of cheap gags about Nigel Boardman. Ah well. Read on for your first glimpse of 2008′s key stories.

January