Tom Dunne: Auld Dunne's Almanac and predictions for 2025

Parents of teenage pop fans will be spending a fortune, the Beatles revival will continue, and there'll be a slew of significant anniversaries

Prepare to open your wallets many more times next year.

Wed, 01 Jan, 2025 - 21:30

Tom Dunne

Tom Dunne is a music-lover extraordinaire who, as well as presenting radio and TV shows, can also be seen in the wild as the lead singer with Something Happens.

My main prediction for 2025 is that some country, buoyed by the success of the banning of social media apps, will move to ban smart phones for everyone. It will become the world’s first “smart phone free country” and by May we will all have moved there.

We will write to those who can’t get join us: “Writing to you today as I have so much free time!” we will tell them. “Slept wonderfully again last night. Am just enjoying a coffee now before I read the old-fashioned big fat newspaper which is full of supplements, clear sighted analysis and actual facts.”