Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts
Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Truth - everyone is doing better here than anybody has ever done

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I'll admit to finding Jordan Peterson a little irritating (and maybe a tad puritan) but this is absolutely true: "Everyone is doin...
Saturday, 8 April 2017

"Tell 'em I lied". Why politicians aren't truthful.

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It's usually attributed to Huey or Earl Long both, back in the day, Governor of Louisiana. Presented with the truth about a campaign ple...
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Thursday, 16 February 2017

Cause and effect - how falsehoods are created

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While the precise nature of truth isn't straightforward, we should be much clearer about falsity and the unethical use of data to presen...
Wednesday, 16 November 2016

What is truth?

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Once upon a time I was planning director of an advertising (well direct marketing really) agency. We'd done so focus groups for a clien...
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Thursday, 29 May 2014

Public health - might some truth be getting though at last?

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**** One swallow doesn't make a summer. But there are two current news items that suggest that the truth is gradually seeping through ...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Things that are true....

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**** From Longrider : There is a word for this and that word is stealing. Because that is what socialists do –  steal other peoples m...
Thursday, 26 April 2012

Things that really aren't a surprise...

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**** George Galloway is a muslim convert (although he didn't quite mention this fact in a recent by-election): George Galloway, MP...
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Thursday, 28 July 2011

So it might be something other than the drink?

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**** Data from the Health Protection Agency suggests around 4,200 people could need a transplant owing to serious damage to their liver, w...
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Saturday, 11 June 2011

Hard to disagree with any of this...

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**** From the ever admirable Mr Worstall : ...the Labour Party needs to be trampled into the dust. The buildings razed, the population ...
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Thursday, 9 June 2011

In which I try to explain truth and reality to an archbishop

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**** I am worried. I appreciate that some may not see it my way but I really do prefer my bishops – when they comment on the political ...
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Friday, 22 April 2011

Put the books down, look out the window and think for yourself.

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Once upon a time there was a blank page – Locke’s tabula rasa. We couldn’t lean on some other persons thinking as a replacement for our own ...
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Sunday, 27 March 2011

The truth of place lies in hearts not ruins

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When Hugh de Morville , Norman baron built this little keep up in the hills of Westmoreland, it was forever. The King had granted him the la...
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Monday, 20 December 2010

Those moments

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You know you get those moments? Instants of utter despair, hair-tearing upset and distress? Whatever it might be – a death, a financial cris...
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Monday, 4 October 2010

Life's mosaic...

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I'm a mosaic - a fragmented, fractured collage of flotsam, jetsam and washed up driftwood. I'm not a clear fresh painting but a crea...
Wednesday, 29 September 2010

What's the point of lying Ed?

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I am 100% sure that, had I been an MP in 2003, I would have voted in favour of British military action in Iraq – mostly because the Prime M...
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Wednesday, 15 September 2010

The Blind Men and the Elephant

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As parables go - or is it fables - The Blind Men and the Elephant is one of my favourites. Whether the narrative version or John Godfrey Sax...
Sunday, 1 August 2010

Hyperbole Fail: Oil spill fails to live up to it billing.

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As if often the case with these things, it appears our oil slick is not quite the disaster the eco -freaks were telling us : The sea's ...
Tuesday, 29 June 2010

Ministerial Honesty - is this a first?

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*** In an address to the Development Trusts Association, Cabinet Office Minister, Nick Hurd appears to have been surprisingly honest: ...
Thursday, 10 June 2010

A mad economist writes (some tips on policy-making from over the pond)

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**** The Whited Sepulchre reminds us – and a welcome reminder it is to – about some economic truths that too many commenters ignore. The g...
Wednesday, 12 May 2010

Wednesday Whimsy: The Spirit of the Unicorn

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“Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a gold horn qui...