warskeptic

Well, all the newspapers today are noticing a calamitous drop in the popularity of our Labour party during this UK election.

My gripe is that these newspapers, satirists etc didn't see any of this coming a few weeks ago, before Labour competitor Nick Clegg began to blow them away in public speeches, and in fact loved ridiculing Clegg. I tire of the lack of insight and widom among the newspapers etc, and of how keen most are not to remind us of how often they've got everythingl wrong a few weeks earlier.

It is a bit like being locked in a room with an arrogant faux-authoritative git who constantly makes hollow observations and some observations that are just highly likely to be wrong: "There's a teapot.... teapots get hot when you having boiling water in them ...... There's a car outside .... we think it will move away in the next three hours."

Weathermen do an ok job of predicting the weather. Scientists are good at predictions. But newspapers and satirists often just want to fill their pages and hope you will forget how random the chances are that they were actualy proved right. Maybe they ought to be a bit more systematic and work out a way to be more accurate, perhaps starting with less bandwagoning and fearmongering etc.