Mirror predicts what awaits the UK in 2023 - from football to the Royals

From football to the Royals, Paul Routledge gives his wry look at what awaits Britain in the new year as 2022 draws to a close and we enter in 2023

The England football manager is named a lifetime peer in the New Year Honors list, predicts The Mirror (

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Instead of fantasy football, let's play a game of fantasy horoscopes - here's what I can see in my crystal ball for 2023.

As a consolation prize for his World Cup defeat, the England football manager is named a Lifetime Peer in the New Year Honors List.

He will henceforth be known as Baron Southgate of Southgate in the London Borough of Enfield. Critics dismiss the nomination as "Garethgate," a vote-seeking maneuver by conservatives.

January marks the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit. Famous bunnies include Ingrid Bergman and Angelina Jolie, but the woman of 2023 turns out to be a rooster: Meghan, starlet of the controversial Harry book Spare, who threatens to blow up the Windsor house.

Encouraged by Camilla, a furious King Charles eventually excommunicates Harry from the royal family and bans him from entering the UK.

'Encouraged by Camilla, a furious King Charles eventually excommunicates Harry from the royal family' (

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The Duke of Sussex thus shares the fate of his wandering great-uncle King Edward VIII, who also fled with an American divorcee.

But Harry will not be governor of the Bahamas.

In February, marking the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, special forces sent from Kyiv fight their way to the Kremlin and assassinate Vladimir Putin.

Moscow public television claims to have only shot his double, while Vlad the invader is alive and hiding in a secret bunker in the Ural Mountains. Western sources insist they got their man.

Hollywood is making the movie I Was Putin's Double, starring Rowan Atkinson as the most unlikely czar to ever star...