Happy New Year. It can’t be any worse than the last one. 2020 will feature in the history books for a number of reasons: the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, Trump’s failure to win re-election and the consequences of lockdown. 2021, so far, looks set to be no different. Despite the Gregorian calendar deciding today is the date one year shifts to another, the political and social situation remains largely unchanged.
Only a fool then, would decide to make predictions on what events will, or won’t, happen in 2021. Enter yours truly! I imagine very few people would have included a pandemic dominating our entire lives as an entry on their 2020 lists, so who knows whether any of my predictions will be correct. 1) Lockdown restrictions of some degree will remain law until the autumn 2) Numerous Brexit Party (now Reform UK) spokespeople - including Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and Martin Daubney - will join Andrew Neil’s GB News channel 3) Judith Collins resigns as leader of the New Zealand National Party 4) Labour gain a majority in the Welsh Parliament elections 5) Despite winning a majority, the SNP aren’t given a second independence referendum after the Scottish elections 6) Fraser Nelson steps down as editor of The Spectator 7) The CDU/CSU win power in Germany (again) 8) GCSE and A-level exams are cancelled 9) Nicky Morgan is appointed Chair of the BBC 10) Donald Trump launches his own media network to accelerate the Trump candidate’s (Donald or otherwise) chance of success in 2024 I’ve written many times here and elsewhere about my criticism of New Year’s Resolutions. They are rarely met and often forgotten. Most of all, they fail to take account for how humans change throughout the year. We are not the same people in June that we write resolutions for in January. It also suggests the only time we can take stock of our lives and move forward is at one arbitrary date every 365 days. Nonetheless, if you can’t beat them, join them. Like the predictions, these will be fun to look back at the end of this year to see whether some (or any) of them have been met. That I’ve published them here certainly makes me more likely to follow them. 1) Use time on social media productively rather than mindlessly scrolling 2) Decide what to do after graduating in 2022, academic or professional 3) Develop my English Language tutoring skills 4) Carry on practising Spanish on Duolingo every day 5) Read more books on Australian and African politics 6) Subscribe to at least one weekly news magazine (New Statesman, Spectator, The Week, Time etc) 7) Improve my confidence at travelling alone by going on holiday once (inland or overseas) 8) Take up jogging (again) 9) Begin researching my family history 10) Pitch writing to a paid publication at least once a fortnight
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CK
1/1/2021 13:37:30
Great article! Good luck with your resolution 1. Nos 2, 4, 7 & 9 look interesting.
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2/1/2021 21:01:52
Interesting predictions and good luck with your resolutions, a lot there so you will be very busy this year.
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