See Dave, TMexPM, even Boris on the long march to the Brexit arrangements we ended up with. (View Post)

And even if you disapprove of "people having more children than they can afford", even if you ignore the possibility that families' circumstances can change over fifteen years... is it real… (View Post)

Clark was a rum cove, even at the time. But also, now is better than then in a number of important ways. (View Post)

It simply aims to please. We don't like to say it out loud, but humans largely respond better to confidently wrong than to correct diffidence. See lots and lots and lots of election results. (View Post)

That's probably also true at an individual level. I could (and am sometimes encouraged to, including as government policy) take the misery out of teaching by using AI to generate lessons, or feedback… (View Post)