Fergus Finlay: This year will be all Varadkar, Boris, and Trump, and a whole lot of wind as well

Weirdly, my annual tongue-in-cheek predictions do come true. If it happens this year... Well, I'd leave it a few minutes if I were you

STILL AT IT: British prime minister Boris Johnson could well lend his name to a new variant of the Covid-10 virus in 2022. With added flatulence. File picture

Tue, 04 Jan, 2022 - 02:54

Fergus Finlay

Fergus Finlay is a former political activist and adviser to three governments, the former head of the children's charity Barnardos, a writer and a broadcaster.

As you know, dear readers, I go to endless trouble at this time of year to predict what the future holds for us all. Why sometimes, I even get my predictions right.

Last year, for example, I predicted that Donald Trump would viciously reject the outcome of the US presidential election. Perhaps that didn’t take much genius on my part — and I certainly wouldn’t have predicted that he’d still be at it a year later.