This is wrong, not just for the methodological reasons given. The problem is more serious. What’s so great about optimal decisions after all? Absolute optimality has costs. Specifically, even if consultation doesn’t help you achieve an optimal decision, it may help avoid a decision that is dramatically pessimal for some particular person or group of…
Read More the worst thing that can happen is actually pretty badOK, I’ve been thinking about this for a while. My problem with the whole “Blue Labour” concept, and further, the love-affair between people like James Purnell and American “community organisers” is this: If you’re so smart, why haven’t you got health insurance?” Seriously. Isn’t trying to learn from the American Left a bit like trying…
Read More oh fuck hell, it’s that extensive future-of-the-Labour-party post at last.Term-extraction algorithms have the disturbing property of making things sound more interesting than they really are. These are WordPress’s suggested tags for the last blog post: community organisers, multilateral agreement on investment, plymouth argyle, james purnell, crash investigation Way more fun than just another future of the Labour Party post. This is of course inherent…
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