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For me this is the single most important maxim for politics and public discourse https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/29/against-signal-boosting-as-doxxing/ Even if there's some truth in DC's charge that this story is being ruthlessly

This is weird and wrong and I am amazed the BBC think it's OK (and I say that as someone who essentially agrees with what she says).https://twitter.com/ashcowburn/status/1265406013961842691 Just tactically, it's

Interesting question and threadhttps://twitter.com/MattSingh_/status/1253388097116659713 Why has trust in media gone down while trust in govt up? 2 hypotheses: a) As Matt says, maybe in a crisis voters are sensitive towards

The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity, wrote Yeats, although I'm not sure if he was right. Waiting for more data to come in

This comment from an anonymous FT reader offers a succinct and simplifying framework for how to think about C-19 and the government's response to it. Not usually keen on quoting

If you're posting that UK vs Ireland thread, listen to Tomhttps://twitter.com/TomChivers/status/1249267237191667712 Also if you're not, of course

I must say I feel pretty much on top of this epidemiology/virology stuff now and kind of surprised that people feel the need to study it for years and years