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# Right about 08 before it even started
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/right-about-08-before-it-even-started/
- Published: 2007-12-30T19:12:31.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:38:55.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:31

**Anthony Barnett (London,** [**OK**](I think we’ll hear less about Iran and more about Pakistan. )**):** I'm not one for predictions hence I admire those who chance it and especially those who get a lot right (see Tony Judt [in last year's oD](http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision%5Freflections/predictions%5F4221.jsp#12)). But [Robin Lustig](http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldtonight/2007/12/the%5Flustig%5Fpredictions%5Ffor%5F200.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) the excellent presenter of BBCs The World Tonight has already scooped a prize, predicting in his blog on the 21st December that "I think we’ll hear less about Iran and more about Pakistan".