At the end of the relatively normal year 2019, The Spinoff asked a dozen pundits to give us their wildest prediction for the political year to come. Nobody comes out of this looking good, writes Alex Braae.
Punditry is challenging at the best of times. The random nature of events often leaves the most insightful of us guessing, and it’s fair to say that 2020 threw up a few surprises.
But that doesn’t excuse or explain just how bad our 2019 predictions now look in hindsight. Few even came remotely close, let alone getting any part of it right at all. For those who rely on The Spinoff to help them understand political events, this will be a difficult read.