Showing posts with label decision-making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decision-making. Show all posts
Monday, 22 January 2018

Those folk you think are thick. They're probably wiser than you.

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It seems - albeit a little tentatively - that people from 'lower social classes' are, in some contexts, wider than us clever folk ...
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Wednesday, 14 December 2016

MPs and Syria - a defence of politicians

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Events in Aleppo shock us all and, as we do when such things happen, we look around for people or organisations at which we can point a fing...
Tuesday, 19 July 2016

Brexit means we're leaving the EU - it really is that simple

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**** "But what does Brexit mean?" In a multitude of comments, each coloured by the particular preference or prejudice of its ...
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Sunday, 17 January 2016

"You're not entitled to your opinion": Plato, proto-fascism and the cult of the expert

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**** You're not entitled to your opinion insists philosophy lecturer, Patrick Stokes: The problem with “I’m entitled to my opinio...
Saturday, 19 December 2015

This is not a scandal - it merely shows us the difference between policy and advice

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It is reported that 'minsters pressured' the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE as it's illitera...
Friday, 29 August 2014

Politics and science...

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**** "A soldier, having seen traces of a horse in the sand, will immediately pass from the thought of a horse to the thought of a hor...
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Saturday, 1 December 2012

The "town-hall zombies"

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**** Matthew Parris has the knack of articulating things many of us have struggled with - this week he comments on local government. That ...
Monday, 22 October 2012

On consultation...

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**** Local government is encouraged - in that gloriously passive aggressive manner beloved of the Department for Communities and Local Gov...
Sunday, 4 March 2012

Decisions...

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The Quaker Meeting House at Sedburgh Quakers - as far as I recall - have this idea of 'waiting on god'. There is no service, peop...
Thursday, 6 January 2011

Here's a dilemma....

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**** ...perhaps not too tricky a dilemma for some but interesting nonetheless. Bradford Council (pdf) run 11 residential homes for the ...
Monday, 29 November 2010

Secrecy is inevitable and probably necessary

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**** Secrecy is necessary. I don’t say this as some form of defence for authoritarian government, for the gagging of journalists or to defen...
Sunday, 22 August 2010

You don't think Councillors have any say on these matters, do you? We're lucky to be 'consulted'!

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**** Now dearly beloved reader, I’m going to explain how our system of local government works and, specifically the role of the councillor (...
Saturday, 24 July 2010

Unopposed development in the 'Green Belt' - a guide to planning idiocy

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**** I try very hard to be positive about the planning system. But this (starts on page 19) makes me want to weep: A full application for c...
Thursday, 29 April 2010

F.A.Smith, financial decision-making and the understanding of numbers

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The holidaying Geek from Oxfordshire posted a little video explaining the problem with big numbers. It points out that huge numbers mean al...
Wednesday, 4 November 2009

Wednesday Whimsy: why a lottery might be better than elections

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Sortition: making a decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn MPs don't have a good press at the moment...
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