Philip Tetlock
The prophet who is out of date
Superforecasting promised to make a science of prediction but failed to predict its own demise
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
