pundit

This week we introduce Jenny Walker, who will be The Observer's expert pundit for the duration of the World Cup.

Pundits in black gowns, with spectacles on their noses and undigested wisdom in their insides; bearded headmen of the wards; … all these people and more also you might find in the white room.

At every hundredth pace the Pundit would automatically slip one bead. Each complete circuit of the rosary thus represented ten thousand paces.