At the moment it feels as though name recognition/incumbency is dominant. People are still thinking in Biden vs Trump terms and that potential re-run remains hard to call. Both are pretty unpopular, … (View Post)

It's not my experience that private sector call centres are more efficient than civil servants - quite the contrary. (View Post)

You're very kind - I feel genuinely pleased at that thought. (View Post)

Indeed. Running Britain will be just practice for the main event for him... (View Post)

My adviser on point-set topology (he field) was quite distinguished: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dowker/ He said at the start of the PhD that ,most students were either lions or… (View Post)