Predictions for 2013

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After two years of really bad predictions, I was going to follow my dear wife’s advice and make predictions with a decent chance of success. However, sometimes it’s more fun to predict slightly less probable events, so here’s my list for 2013:

1. At least one of Scotland’s unionist parties will change their leader.
2. It will finally become possible to obtain dual citizenship in Denmark.
3. One more country will join Scotland and Catalunya in planning an independence referendum for 2014.
4. The CDU/CSU will continue to be the largest political grouping in the German Bundestag after the election.
5. The Eurozone will survive another year (although Greece and Spain in particular will continue to suffer).
6. Facebook will continue to be the most popular social networking site.
7. The kids won’t get any opportunity to use their sledges or build an igloo in Newton Mearns.
8. England will join Scotland and Denmark in not qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
9. Rangers FC will collapse again.
10. The UK won’t win the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö.