He didn't seem to understand that being off target by about two orders of magnitude is highly misleading. He seemed to think that his claim and the real figures are in the same ballpark. (View Post)

Daniel Ellsberg — the Pentagon Papers chap — wrote an excellent recent book The Doomsday Machine about US nuclear posture in the 50s and 60s, he had been given carte blance to reasearch the topic at … (View Post)

It looks like 50% fear mongering and 50% ignorance. (View Post)

You are too polite, she may be quite stupid. (View Post)

Starmer seems to say quite a lot of things that can easily be demonstrated to be wrong. He doesn't seem like a particularly curious or numerate person. (View Post)