- Generative artificial intelligence will become significantly disruptive of many sectors this year. Education practices will change quickly as a result of this but education will be but one of many areas of life to be affected.
- No progress for those seeking marriage equality in the Church of England. There will be a lot of talk about moving towards some form of official blessings for same-sex couples which would have the effect of thwarting those seeking actual equality, making it more difficult to achieve. Further division amongst pro-gay activists in the Church of England.
- Indyref 2 will not happen on 19 October 2023 as Nicola Sturgeon had hoped, which is a shame for those seeking to separate Scotland from the rest of the UK as the autumn will be the high water mark for the Indepedence movement. It will be downhill into the next General Election after that.
- Trump and Biden will both declare that they intend to run for the US presidency in 2024 and American politics will continue to be all about Donald Trump.
- Covid recovery remains bumpy, particularly through supply-chain problems due to mismanagement of Covid in China.
- No conclusive end to the war in Ukraine this year.
- Governments in Westminster and Holyrood will announce some kind of “new deal” for the National Heath Service.
- UK Government will not succeed in blocking Scottish Gender Recognition Reform.
- Liam McArthur’s bill in the Scottish Parliamant to allow doctors to participate in the killing of terminally ill patients will fail to receive parliamentary approval but will receive more support than similar proposals have before.
- Changes announced to the UK honours system, perhaps at the time of the Coronation, to remove references to empire. OBE becomes Order of British Excellence.
11 responses to “Blogroll”
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(Yeah, I’ve given up on wittering. Transpires Q, in which I wrote that thing, was too CPU-intensive for the poor wee colo-server to cope with when bots came knocking, so it had to go; it’s all-but a dead language now anyway…)
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There are easier ways to host a blog, Tim…
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Mental. On my ‘to do’ list for today was to write a ‘back blogging’ post…
Very strange!
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Think of it as the Holy Spirit, Nick.
Or alternatively think of it as synchronicity as many of the rest of us might do.
Glad you are coming back.
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David Campbell’s blog has long since moved to here:
http://limpingtowardsthesunrise.wordpress.com/-
So it does. Thanks, I’ve updated the link.
I usually read Fr David’s blog in google reader. What an exotic layout it has in real life!
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My dears, I can only wish I were as exotic in real life!
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Hope Nick starts blogging again too! He did a post reviewing The Dark Knight once, which is more down-wit’-da-kidz than highfalutin’ praepostorial theatre reviews 😉 (that said, do hope you do The Habit of Art! :-))
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I did Figaro.
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Thanks Kelvin, I’ll have a look at the rss thing – it’s all a bit new to me still!
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Thanks John – you’ve already got a nicely behaving rss feed for your content but I can’t find one for comments.
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