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  • Predictions 2025

    1. Good results for Nigel Farage following the English local elections in May. Terrible results for Conservative Party.
    2. No progress towards the marriage of same-sex couples in the Church of England
    3. Turbulent year for WordPress, which powers about half of the internet.
    4. 2025 will be the hottest year on record.
    5. No trade deal for UK with US. Increasing talk of re-aligning economy closer to EU.
    6. Ceasefire in Russia-Ukraine war but no long term solution.
    7. “Assisted Dying” aka doctor assisted suicide becomes legal in at least one of the jurisdictions of the British Isles.
    8. Turbulent year for economy but stock market higher at end of year than beginning. (FTSE currently at 8,173)
    9. There will be fewer Commonwealth Realms (ie countries which share the monarchy) by the end of 2025 than there are now.
    10. Philip Mountstephen.

5 responses to “Silly headline”

  1. Zebadee Avatar
    Zebadee

    The BBC and certain ‘academics’ are only about three hundred years behind the times. Of course the tune IS still being used today to sing this wonderful carol. We only wish that we could be in St Marys on Christmas Day to sing it with you.

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  2. Elizabeth Avatar
    Elizabeth

    I remember being very confused the first time I heard the carol sung to a tune that wasn’t On Ilkla’ Moor, and thinking that they did things rather oddly on this charming island.

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  3. Tim Avatar
    Tim

    Well, congratulations to them for actually having had the balls to talk to an academic, if not the brains to make much of the story. That’s half a step up from the bulk of modern journalism.

    Form the article: He said carols – many of which have folk roots –

    Actually, *all* carols have to be a mediaeval (round) dance tune, otherwise they’re merely Christmas hymns (cf Away in a Manger only dating from around 1885). Natch.

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  4. chris Avatar
    chris

    The Ilkla’ Moor tune has also been sung in the Cathedral of The Isles, in recent years.

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  5. kelvin Avatar
    kelvin

    of course it has – and in many a place of good taste.

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