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There is a new blog on the block tracking the guesses of pundits against the outcomes of reality. It has a nice design, too.

The project sounds worthwhile:

This blog aims to do one thing: track the forecasts of Britain pundits, bloggers and others on politics and elections, foreign affairs and economic trends.

It is often said that there is no accountability for newspaper pundits - they can guess wrong time and again and see no consequences. With this blog and the way in which it highlights pundits’ forecasts, that may change. But our aim is not to catch out or embarrass pundits, or to record only mistaken predictions. We aim but to keep a record for posterity of all forecasts - those that are proved right, those proved wrong and those that fall somewhere in between. If a pundit is particularly good at predicting what is to come, this blog will highlight this just as much.

However, it looks like a sod to keep track of once there are a few hundred predictions on there, so my prediction is that it will last between 9 and 12 months :-). I hope that I am wrong on this one. There is more information here.

A blog I picked up via Ian Whickham at Question That, which has a name every bit as good as the Harry’s Place slogan:

Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.

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