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We are reliably informed by the calendar that yet another year has begun.
That can only mean one thing: the time has come to go out on a limb with a
series of ill-advised predictions that are almost certainly not how
the year will actually go. We have to try; it’s traditional, after all.
Read on for our view of what’s coming and how it may play out.