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Peter Rhodes on predictions, pain and the safest way to ramble

What do you call a fortune teller who predicts your future and then says, oh, by the way, these predictions may take 500 years to come true? How about Nostradamus?

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The 16th century astrologer has made headlines with his forecasts for the year 2025 in which “the Kingdom (England) will be marked by wars so cruel, foes from within and without will arise. ”

So far, so horrible. Yet has everyone forgotten that three years ago, Nostradamus' enigmatic predictions suggested horrors for France which would be devastated as the Ukraine war spread across Europe: “Blue-head shall white-head harm in such degree, As France's good to both shall e'er amount.”