The new year will bring novelty and unpredictability—but in familiar, predictable ways
Predicting the future is always fraught, and the events of the last five years have demonstrated the impossibility of second-guessing it. At the start of 2022, who could have foreseen a government whose ambition was to outlive a lettuce, hot on the heels of one that didn’t meet that challenge? The new year will, however, offer a little more certainty—even if it is a certainty that will result in further uncertainties.
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