Fifteen Predictions for 2008 - some serious, some not
Gordon Brown will remain unpopular. He will be 6-8 points behind the Conservatives at the end of 2008
The credit crunch will hang around for the whole of 2008
The UK economy will grow by 1.9 per cent
Alistair Darling, if he is still Chancellor and hasn’t been replaced by Ed Balls, will raise taxes further, largely by stealth, in the Budget as the Treasury will be running out of cash
We will all get immensely bored by the Bill to ratify the European Reform Treaty
Ken Livingstone will be re-elected as Mayor of London
The FTSE 100 will end the year at 6,500
Interest rates will end the year at 5.25 per cent
The US will start taking climate change more seriously but action will only be taken after a new President is signed in
Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani will face each other in the US Presidential election in November 2008. Clinton will lose - just
The Wall Street Journal will start to grow market share in Europe as well as in the US
The Beijing Olympics will be ready on time and the Chinese will win the most medals. But they will be seriously disrupted by smog.
Arsenal will win the Premiership, although some here are claiming that honour will fall to Fulham. On a more serious note, Watford will win promotion
Pete Doherty and Kate Moss will get back together and then split up. Again
Led Zeppelin, Take That, Boyzone and the Spice Girls will do a comeback tour together
We would love to hear your predictions and we will review who was right and who was hopelessly wrong at the end of next year.