One old campaigner who is slave to the habit of future-gazing at this time of year
Whether you have recently celebrated Christmas, the Solsticial Saturnalia, Winterval or the Holiday Season; whether you adhere to the predominant Western, neo-Christian convention of the Gregorian calendar, that of the Prophet, or the Julian year with Christmas yet to come, I submit — with all due politically correct and deferential humility — that it will come as no surprise to you if I attempt to peer into the future.