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Burnham’s claim that abandoning the triple lock will fund a National Care Service is sophistry (opens the original)
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What do the following headlines on yesterday’s Labour conference speech by Andy Burnham all have in common?From the BBC:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="393" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UFsq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_
John Healey has turned into the Iraqi information minister (opens the original)
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Who remembers the Iraqi information minister during the 2003 war? Day by day his performances for Western media became more surreal. He would talk of great victories for Saddam Hussein even as American bombers flew overhead, until one day he didn’t turn up to work. I am not sure anyone knows what happened to him after that.But I was reminded of him when listening to John Healey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, making his speech to the Labour party conference on Monday. He told us that Britain i
Scotland’s liberal drug policies are a national disgrace and a grave warning to others (opens the original)
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They called it ‘evidenced-based’ when it suited them: the Scottish National Party’s ‘progressive’ drugs policy which was supposed to reduce deaths by ending the stigmatisation of drug-users. But the SNP doesn’t seem to care much for the evidence which is staring it in the face: that the self-same progressive policy has catapulted Scotland to the top of the league table for drug-related deaths in Europe, and is continuing to rise. Last week, the Scottish Government released it latest figures for
An inability to distinguish between modelling and real-world data is a disease of our times (opens the original)
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You see it when people weep, even go into mourning, over characters in soap operas who have reached an untimely end: an inability to distinguish between the real world and the fictional one. But it is a condition which has seeped far deeper into modern life. We have a growing number of reporters who are no longer able to distinguish between modelling and real world data.I raise the issue particularly in relation to a headline which appeared in the Guardian this week, relating to a document which
Javier Milei was a hero to economic liberals but he has now retreated into Argentina’s comfort zone (opens the original)
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If ever there was an example of how to throw away an economic legacy it is Argentina. A century ago it was, per capita, one of the richest countries in the world, embarked on a course that could and should have followed that of Australia. Now, it sits halfway down among middle-income countries, below China, Malaysia and Mexico. It is the victim of decades of economic mismanagement, uncontrolled debt and corruption. That is why economic liberals were so enthused by the election, in November 2023,
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