Every year I try and predict the year ahead. Every year I'm hopelessly wrong. Let's see how well I did when I published these predictions on Jan 1st 2022...
Kev F's Confident Predictions for 2022
1 - New leader of the Tories by December '22, and it'll be Rishi Sunak
CORRECT. Wow, let's stick here. So far I have a 100% success rate.
2 - New Doctor Who announced, and it'll be Guz Kahn
HALF RIGHT. It was announced, and it was both Ncuti Gatwa and David Tennant.
3 - House prices take a dramatic fall
SLIGHTLY RIGHT. Not dramatic, but they are dipping in some parts of the country.
4 - Petrol prices remain about the same (no fall or rise more than 1%)
SO WRONG. The biggest price rises is decades happened in 2022. I paid £2 a litre at a motorway services in the middle of the year, prices have currently "dropped" to around £1.60 a litre. As recently as 2020 I got a litre for 99p (it was the pandemic). Apparently 2021 saw a rise from £1.17 to £1.48, then summer 2022 it went as high as £1.90.
5 - Cryptocurrencies suffer dramatic collapse, NFT market vanishes
MOSTLY RIGHT. Crypto crashed, but the NFT nutters are still at it.
6 - Eurovision won by a Scandinavian country
WRONG. Won by Ukraine, second place awarded to UK, but in a scandal that suggests it should actually have gone to Spain.
7 - Britain's Got Talent won by a performing animal
WRONG. I only mentioned this because I knew The Socks were about to be in it. I also didn't predict we'd hit the cutting room floor and our performance never get broadcast.
8 - Covid 19 officially declared endemic and no worse than the common cold
NOT QUITE. It gets discussed, as in this article, which unhelpfully tells us "For COVID-19, there is no universal scientific agreement on the threshold for declaring endemicity".
9 - Marvel announces new movies: Captain Britain, Miracleman, and Dracula Lives
WRONG. It announced some films, but I neither remember nor care what. Their TV series were mostly good, but the movies have remained unimpressive. They can't lose money, but they're getting less and less interesting.
10 - Kamala Harris becomes President of USA
WRONG. It's still Biden. And the lack of headlines about the USA and their presidency continues to be a pleasant relief.
11 - TV adaptations include a Shakespeare adaptation that is uncomfortably close to one of mine
NOT QUITE. Though Pistol did refer to the "Prince of Denmark Street".
12 - I do not know what'll happen with our house purchase and am not going to jinx it by predicting a damn thing!
CORRECT. Right up until we moved, we weren't sure we were going to be able to. But we did, and we are loving our new house.
So, to the coming year. What do I see in my crystal ball?
Kev F's Confident Predictions for 2023
1 - No General Election in 2023. Rishi Sunak remains Tory leader, Keir Starmer remains Labour leader.
2 - Candidates for US Presidential Election: Alexandra Ocasia Cortez, Kamala Harris, a big Hollywood actor that no-one saw coming, Kanye West, Donald Trump, a Republican who's surprisingly not very Right Wing.
3 - Petrol prices fall, starting year around £1.60, ending around £1.20
4 - House prices plummet (let's face it, we just bought a house, what else could happen?)
5 - Eurovision won by Ireland
6 - Marvel cancel production on a movie or one bombs so bad they have to reassess their schedules
7 - A well known manga title becomes an international hit live action film, spawning an explosion in titles that start to rival Marvel & Disney franchises
9 - Eastenders has a record number of deaths
10 - National newspaper goes out of business: Daily Star
11 - Surprise technology hit: AI versions of your dead relatives, from old VHS recordings
12 - Bands that get virtual revivals (like ABBAtars): Kiss, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Genesis, an immersive Starlight Express, and a Busby Berkeley musical
13 - Strictly contestants: An old Radio 1 DJ (Mike Read, Bruno Brookes, Peter Powell), a respected author (JK Rowling, Val McDermid, Mallorie Blackman), a social pariah (Justin Lee Collins, Graham Linehan, Rebekah Vardy)
14 - Things that I predict cos I don't want them to happen:
- Widespread power cuts
- War in Ukraine continues right through year
- Another big war somewhere
- Lots of celebrity deaths and they're all younger than me
There you go, end on a cheerful note. Let's see how that lot goes.
Happy New Year
Prince Of Denmark Street - Amazon - Etsy
Midsummer Nights Dream Team - Amazon - Etsy
Doctor Who Colouring - Amazon - Lulu - Etsy
Punk Colouring - Amazon - Lulu - Etsy
70s Pop Star Colouring - Amazon - Lulu - Etsy
60s Pop Star Colouring - Amazon - Lulu - Etsy
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