Rather than use the so called experts to predict future financial situations you might as well use animals, like Paul, the oracle octopus, who correctly predicted 12 out 0f 14 World Cup games in 2010. (After the quarter-final prediction when Paul correctly predicted that Argentina would lose to Germany, the South Americans threatened to kill the octopus and put him in a paella.)

Not even the no?

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As it was the first statement it is in plain view and not the least bit lost.

I also believe you understand perfectly well the point being made.

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"A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer." [Orwell]

“Those who have nothing original to say quote others, for it can create an illusion of wisdom, where none exists.” [Wisbech Eagle 2023]

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An interesting and great writer of prose I acknowledge, but prophetic not so. He warned about totalitarianism but that’s not to predict it. That the right imagine it is what we are seeing is simply evidence of their paranoia.

What’s really amusing is the way the right seem to think his words support their views. This could not be further from the truth, as he was a socialist. Something he went at great pains to point out. Don’t believe me? Try reading this short analysis of the political thinking behind his writing. It contains some Orwell quotes I doubt you will have seen before:-

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