We Need To Stop Listening To These People - Douglas Murray - #706

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
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You've spent a lot of time studying history and writing about current events at the moment. How would you rate your predictive ability given the current state of the world? Were the things that you foresaw coming or things that you've been particularly surprised by?

**Douglas Murray** (4:35)
Well, nobody gets to predict with 100% accuracy anything, because among other things, all the time things happen that you could never have seen coming. I could never have seen COVID coming, I just didn't. So whenever anyone sort of boasts about their predictive capabilities, I always think you have to do it with a certain amount of humility, because, I mean, things happen all the time you couldn't see. You can only see around the bend of the road you're coming to, you can't see around the corner.