In search of a family activity that is a little bit chilling, a little bit divisive and not that enjoyable? I have the perfect answer, writes Zoe Williams
In search of a family activity that is a little bit chilling, a little bit divisive and not that enjoyable? I have the perfect answerPhotograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Imagesn New Year’s Eve 2021, probably because some other doughnut in a newspaper said it was a fun idea, the family all wrote down predictions for the year ahead and sealed them in a box.
So that left three: I had said I thought Covid would be seen as no different from a cold, that nobody would self-isolate or even test any more, and everything would be completely normal. Mr Z’s was in two parts – Liz Truss would be prime minister, andwould be further annexed. The other 15-year-old had said she would always have £100 in her bank account.
And so the hair-splitting began. Obviously Liz Truss is not prime minister, and “annexed” is too formal and coherent a term for the Russian incursions into Ukraine. Equally obviously, Truss was for a bit, and Russia has invaded, and thus this should be classed as prescience. I disputed this on a technicality, that the only measure of a prediction is if it’s true, although my real objection was that I think he manifests these negative events with the power of his pessimism.
The 15-year-old, though, does have £100 in her bank account; she got a job, and even better than that, it’s in a posh butcher. She literally brings home the bacon. Overall, I would say that this wheeze was a little bit chilling, a little bit divisive, not that fun. The take-home is: think twice before you listen to a doughnut in a newspaper.
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