Pure meritocracy is such a ludicrous proposition as to not be worth discussing, in my view. Nevertheless, an approximation could serve as a useful fiction if we were just a little better at defining … (View Post)

Agreed. Like many of us he believes first, and finds evidence later. He isn't unusual in that (and I'm uncomfortable implying that he is). What's unusual is what he chooses to believe.… (View Post)

I think Sandpit posts a lot of this in good faith, and I value his perspective. To me it just reinforces the post-truth nature of the Internet. One can go looking for, and find, really quite convinci… (View Post)

I was at a wedding yesterday, with a reasonably politically engaged group of centre left on my table. Unanimously they said they didn't understand why Starmer was resigning, or how Burnham would… (View Post)

I agree on your second paragraph (notsomuch that the outrage was confected, more than people can change) but I wonder if the issue might have been that he hadn't really changed and Kuenssberg or… (View Post)