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Did you ever have the uneasy feeling that the experts are not … well, experts? ‘We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.’ Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962 I Wish I Hadn’t Said That sets straight thousands of examples of expert misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies. The experts have been wrong about everything under, including and beyond the sun: time, space, the sexes, the races, the environment, economics, politics, crime, education, the media, history and science. In I Wish I Hadn’t Said That we see just how much the experts don’t know. ‘No woman in my lifetime will be Prime Minister’ Margaret Thatcher

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`This book is irreverent, unfair and subversive. What more could anyone ask for?' Time

Who said 'No woman in my lifetime will be Prime Minister'? Answer, none other than the Iron Lady herself, Margaret Thatcher. Fortunately for the rest of us, politicians are accustomed to u-turns, and very entertaining it is too - everyone loves a know-it-all with egg on their face, it speaks to the rasberry-blowing subversive in us all. With a foreword by Matthew Parris, who'll never let bygones be bygones where a verbal faux pas is concerned, this is a delightful collection of experts putting feet in mouths on subjects as diverse as science, education, music and crime. (Kirkus UK)

'This book is irreverent, unfair and subversive. What more could anyone ask for?' Time

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Christopher Cerf is the co-editor of The Politcally Correct Dictionary and Handbook and The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade, 1980--89. He is a former contributing editor to the National Lampoon, and he co-edited the newspaper parody Not the New York Times. Victor Navasky is the publisher and editorial director of The Nation. He is the author of the American Book Award winner Naming Names and Kennedy Justice.

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