BRAGGING

When after six enjoyable decades of writing weekly and monthly newspaper and magazine columns I finally wearied of the obligation, my eldest son Chris suggested I write a Blog. That was six years ago and the appeal lay in the briefness of the entries compared with a newspaper column, plus their spasmodic nature, I only banging something up if in the mood or wanting to say it.

Over the course of these blogging years I’ve made three predictions which drew respectively sceptism with two and puzzlement with the third.

The first two sceptism-inducing ones were at the height of the Jacindamania insanity in which I predicted the government would lose the next election then 18 months away, in a landslide, which duly occurred.

The other was, again at the height of the Jacindamania absurdity, I predicting that in 15 months time she’d announce her retirement in January, 2023, which also duly occurred.

Finally, there was the puzzlement one. That was about five years back when I predicted the next British Conservative Party leader would be Kemi Badenoch.

This, unsurprisingly elicited much curiosity, as seemingly no blog readers back then had heard of her.

That she, an ethnic Nigerian, should follow an ethnic Indian as Tory Party leader reflects the nature of multi-culture contemporary British society, which has been over-whelming economically beneficial, not the least because unlike the Brits, they’re not work shy.