Showing posts with label evidence-based policy making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evidence-based policy making. Show all posts
Thursday, 15 March 2018

Fast food shop bans - public policy as virtue signalling

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Banning new hot food takeaways is a favourite policy of local councils these days. It's driven by a thing they call "wider determ...
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Friday, 5 August 2016

The "phone a friend" approach to evidence in policy-making

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**** When we read about evidence-based policy-making, we're encouraged to believe that the people doing this stuff are carefully sift...
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Sunday, 24 July 2016

Why it's good to admit to being wrong every now and then...

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**** I used to work with a chap - forget his name, it was along time ago before I came to Bradford - who, when I'd point out a mistak...
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Saturday, 18 June 2016

Why we don't need an Evidence Information Service (but do need better access to evidence)

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**** Whenever I think about evidence-based policy making and the use of data by government, my mind turns to an article by Dr Vince-Wayne ...
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Saturday, 18 June 2011

Judges back Department of Health - 550 people dumped on the dole

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* *** In a terrible decision the Appeal Court upheld the Government's proposed ban on cigarette vending machines: Cigarette ven...
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Alcohol Concern Cymru - the most ignorant of nannying fussbuckets

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**** Although BBC Wales does its best to make Alcohol Concern Cymru not seem like a bunch of idiots even they can't quite manage it wi...
Saturday, 23 October 2010

Multipliers, markets and why the New Economics Foundation make me cross

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The frighteningly bright Jon Beech has challenged my frothing rant about the New Economics Foundation and indeed my contention that much of...
Sunday, 1 November 2009

Policy-based evidence making (or How Government is killing science with help from academics)

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If I hear the phrase “evidence-based policy making” drop from the lips of a Labour minister or one of their bureaucratic lickspittles I shal...