If the world treats them as though they are an authority, every idiot will be obliged say that the objective conditions of a situation are complicated to the point of being incomprehensible. In the run up to the 2015 general election, this is rapidly becoming the defining feature of both mainstream political commentary and policy formulation.
The mystification of political journalism is nothing new. It carries with it a whole vocabulary designed to complicate simple ideas. Between now and May, you won’t be able to move for people talking about “the electorate” in the third person and how things might “play” with them, or people using the word “data” unnecessarily, or political correspondents “revealing” very obvious things from “insiders”.
