I’ve been saying for a very long time – back to 2006, I think, but the earliest TYReference I can find is that the difference among European countries that hopped into Iraq with both feet and those that didn’t is the difference between those who had independent satellite imaging and those who didn’t. This is…
Read More WhooshFlipchart discusses a bunch of polling that suggests that not everyone fits into a standard left-right spectrum but MPs usually do, and quotes this YouGov slide (from 2015). He goes on to make a fairly familiar case that the public really want to break with The Two Liberalisms. This is a collection of tropes pulled…
Read More Algo Kitsch, Again: Salience vs CoherenceThe blog has, per Pingdom report, missed exactly one check this month for 3 minutes of downtime. The previous downtime was in the first week of January, when it was offline for several hours as I carried out major maintenance. During this streak we had the 7000 unique traffic dump on this post. This is…
Read More peering at the dipstickSo what about that Office for Students and the twat, then? I promised Paul Bernal off the twitter a blog post, and here it is. The thing is, it wasn’t just the ‘social media vetting’ that was the problem with Toby Young. Anyone with an ounce of knowledge about him knew he was wholly inappropriate…
Read More Everyone Hates the Phone Company: The Purpose of the Office for Students