First a note about the headline.

I started secondary school as punk rock became mainstream and, much to my parents’ horror, I loved The Sex Pistols and later Public Image Ltd/John Lydon.

That’s reflected in my Ten Top Tens on here that I put together to celebrate getting my hearing back with advanced digital hearing aids back in 2012.

Former Pistol’s front man John Lydon uses the “I could be wrong, I could be right” line in his stage show and it is a lyric from anti-apartheid song Rise he created with PIL. You can always count on the former ‘Johnny Rotten’ to give it to you straight and I’ve always loved how he can still cause chaos all these years later, even though he has mellowed a lot with age and personal tragedy, like the loss of his beloved wife Nora to the ravages of dementia.

In 2009 I kicked off commenting on various aspects of my working and home life in a blog entitled “2020 Visions – Imagining the World my Children will inherit”

I’ll let the category cloud give you an idea of what I’ve been pontificating about mainly over the years.

Embedded below are a selection of 24 posts from the last 15 years with captions commenting on if or where things have changed and, indeed, whether I was wrong or right in those observations.

All highly subjective and viewed through my lens of course but hopefully makes for some interesting reading.

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