“Andrew Lansley says all the evidence supports his interventions, as he has done repeatedly, he is simply wrong. His wrongness is not a matter of opinion, it is a fact, and his pretence at data-driven faux neutrality is not just irritating, it’s also hard to admire. There’s no need to hide behind a cloak of scientific authority, murmuring the word “evidence” into microphones. If your reforms are a matter of ideology, legacy, whim, and faith, then like many of your predecessors, you could simply say so, and leave “evidence” to people who mean it.”
Category Archives: Politics
A True Story Of Daily Mail Lies…
No Sleep ‘Til Brooklands: A True Story Of Daily Mail Lies (guest post)
This is an amazing story and confirms my worst fears when I read the paper.
The most striking part is the comments. I see four people claiming that the exact same thing happened to them.
The United Kingdom Explained…
The United Kingdom Explained on Devour.com
I’ll be looking for this one day, I’ve forgotten how many times people have asked me this and I’ve got all tangled up in the response.
Charlie Brooker shoots down Clegg…
There is only one problem when you’re a politician and you write such plain stupid things in the papers.
“There are millions of people in Alarm Clock Britain,” Clegg writes. “People, like Sun readers, who have to get up every morning and work hard to get on in life.”
Seriously, how old does he think people are? This is so transparent that it hurts.
Luckily, it’s good food for comics.
House price bubble…
Bursting the Express house price bubble | Full Fact
Talking about house prices like this should be banned. Seriously, I think that it reflects more the wishes of the journalist than any real analysis.
Horlicks…
“After going through that experience, Woolley had an epiphany: financial institutions that react to market incentives in a competitive setting often end up making a mess of things. “I realized we were acting rationally and optimally,” he said. “The clients were acting rationally and optimally. And the outcome was a complete Horlicks.” Financial markets, far from being efficient, as most economists and policymakers at the time believed, were grossly inefficient. “And once you recognize that markets are inefficient a lot of things change.”
Wall Street, investment bankers, and social good : The New Yorker.
A response from Cambridge…
I love this part of the response. Corporations are having more and more problems dealing with the real world that isn’t organized like them.
“This shows a deep misconception of what universities are and how we work. Cambridge is the University of Erasmus, of Newton, and of Darwin; censoring writings that offend the powerful is offensive to our deepest values. Thus even though the decision to put the thesis online was Omar’s, we have no choice but to back him. That would hold even if we did not agree with the material!”
Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » A Merry Christmas to all Bankers.
Each generation…
There is a theory that people are created by the circumstances their presented with…
15-Year-Old Protester Goes Off On British Establishment (VIDEO)
President Mitch…
Scripting News: President Mitch McConnell
Good name for a president if nohing else.
The founding fathers…
“The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.”