Soul Trader
Inspired by a trip to see Faust shortly before Christmas. Selling your soul to the Devil is a mug's game. Not only is the expected outcome (in a mathematical sense)…
Month: December 2018
Quiz Time: City Quiz Added
The City Quiz (Christmas Quiz III) has been added to the Quiz Time App! Free to download and with in-game hints if needed, why not try it out? Created by…
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Herman Wouk – the 20th / 21st century’s greatest author
What makes a great author? Some would argue that popularity should be the key measure, with best-selling authors the clear champions of the writing world. The public is the true…
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Wonkhe: Student Union Reform
An 'adversarial collaboration' between myself and Jim Dickinson goes live on Wonkhe today, debating whether or not student unions are in need of significant reform. I put the case that…
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Conservative Home: £9,250 tuition fees: Bad for students, Bad for Society, Bad for the Conservative Party
In my latest Conservative Home article I set out why a major reduction in university tuition fees (replaced by teaching grant based on the cost to deliver the coursr) isn't…
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Macron, Brexit and the bankruptcy of so-called ‘centrism’
I've tried not to give a blow by blow account of the Brexit negotiations. But with riots against Macron in their fourth week in France, our negotiations at an impasse…
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Five Questions Meme
With thanks to liv for posting the meme and for setting me the questions below. For those not familiar, the way it works is that anyone who would like questions…
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Brexit Possibilities
It’s often difficulty trying to estimate probabilities, particularly when there are many different potential futures. Availability bias means we tend to assign a greater weight to the options we’re thinking…
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Christmas Quiz XIII: Errata
I've discovered two duplicate answers on Christmas Quiz XIII: 63 and 75 29 and 36 Questions 36 and 75 have been replaced by new clues. Download the updated quiz here.