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Long-time followers will know of my annoying habit of actually looking at the tables of subcomponents in the @TheEIU's (still very useful) world rankings --- and I regret to inform
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Good point by @mattedgar in recent weeks that just because "we've shifted to digital more in two months than we managed in years" might not (yet) mean any durable digital
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"Simplicity is at the root of policy failures" > I enjoyed this piece by @pollymackenzie in @unherd and I basically agree except importantly on the semantics. Because I passionately believe
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As previewed by @FT and now on the @nesta_uk website -- @RichardALJones and I have written a report, and built an interactive web tool, exploring where the UK invests in
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Very excited for a 10,000 word blog post on http://gov.uk explaining how it's outrageous to suggest that anyone was stopped by the police since motion and being "stopped" are actually
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I saw it this morning. Diagnosed cases of Covid-19 by local authority in England (I just looked at the North). So I got all the data together to reproduce this
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I quite like the government responding to claims in the press directly. And a blog is a good way to do it. But do they have to be such dicks
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Is air quality in Leeds better or worse since our lockdown begun? The data suggest, if anything, that it's worse. Is the data wrong? Am I reading it wrong? Is
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1800 words by me on why I think Google are publishing their mobility reports in PDFs, and why I think that's the right decision. With an invitation for all to
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Today I've seen,* A UK regulated TV station interviewing David Icke about his Coronavirus conspiracy theories.* The Daily Mail publishing a Russian propaganda piece on their new coronavirus clinic.* The
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I feel like one of the biggest flaws of modern market liberal democracy is its failure to defend itself. Do we free-ride on the free trade nuts too often? I
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In 2009 The French Minister of Health reacted extremely strongly to H1N1 Flu. Huge orders of vaccines. Stockpiling of nearly 2 billion masks..Fewer than 400 French died. Most of the
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