What is in Kelvin's Head?

  • How were my Predictions last year?

    Time to check out how I did with the predictions I made on New Year’s Day 2024.

    1  General Election in UK – Labour landslide. PM – Sir Keir Starmer. (No great change in policies from the Tory government that Labour will replace).

    Yes – fulfilled in every way.

    2  US politics will continue to be dominated by Donald Trump

    Yes

    3  In the US Presidential election in November there will be victory for the Republican Party.

    Yes

    4  AI/Deepfakes have a significant effect in electoral politics.

    Not really – AI/Deepfakes are present but there’s no real evidence that they swung any particular election

    5  Conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine unresolved by end of 2024.

    Alas Yes

    6  No progress for those wanting marriage equality in the Church of England.

    Alas Yes

    7  Twitter goes bust or is sold or both.

    Not quite. Twitter feels pretty wounded but still Xists.

    8  The world will be warmer in 2024 than ever before.

    Yes

    9  Another country will join Nato.

    Yes, Sweden in March.

    A new agreement is reached between the UK and Greece on the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles that opens the door for at least some of them to be displayed in Athens.

    Close but no cigar.

     

    Not a bad year – 7 direct hits with a few misses.

9 responses to “Sinjoro, malfermu niajn lipojn.”

  1. Moyra Avatar
    Moyra

    Sinjoro, malfermu niajn lipojn

    How worrying – 1662 BCP in Esperanto!

    Does that get me two points?

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  2. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Full marks
    Yes – full marks – the BCP in Esperanto.

    Something for a Sunday evening, I think.

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  3. Brian Avatar
    Brian

    Open thou
    "Oh Lord, open thou our lips" – 1662 BCP – yes, in Esperanto

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  4. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Evensong in Esperanto
    Have you told Frikki and the choir yet?

    :-))

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  5. Mark Avatar
    Mark

    I was going to say that! Esperanto!

     

    By the way, Kelvin – does your site have an RSS/Atom feed? 

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    Anonymous

    RSS feed
    I do have an rss feed, though the architecture of this site is a little creaky and you might have to resort to forgiving it sometimes.

    The feed is at http://www.thurible.net/backend.php though it is likely to move sometime when I move this site over to WordPress, something that I have been intending to do for a while.

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    Anonymous

    I knew what it said, but not the language!! Now I know, thank you!

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  8. Andrew Avatar
    Andrew

    Esperanto
    Gest it era parto di Abendleed in Esperanto – Gugl konfirma lo.
    Cinq points?

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    Anonymous

    Cinq points?
    Oh, Andrew, double points to you, without a doubt.

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