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Move along. There’s nothing here to see.

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@william_whyte I would like to know more about the context surrounding this application and reference.

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@AlextheYounga @MatthewTanous You’re acting as if the converse of a proposition implies the proposition itself. Arguing against “correlation does not imply causation” on the basis that “causation implies correlation” is unsound.

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@sallonsax What model of proportional (or non-plurality) voting would you support?

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@The_Clermontian @EuropeanSocLib How is it quadruple lock?

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@marcusaroberts What policies that Burnham (is speculated to) supports do you think merits a general election, if any?

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@mactellomckeown I think dropping odour bombs is quite different to the Holocaust.

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@hw_moore I realise this analysis has become less true since 1994, but I’m not sure on the extent and what you said seems to take Bagehot/Westminster system for granted.

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@hw_moore In theory the US system works on basis of (aspirant) legislators cultivating personal vote. Eg, Mayhew’s “electoral connection”, Moynihan’s rejection of Clinton healthcare plan, dominance of House by Democrats until 1994 despite GOP presidencies that were success on own terms.

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@elEmmerson @baylissbaghdad Forgive my ignorance, what does “bureaucratic bit of policy wording” refer to?

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@s8mb From which establishment did you procure this?

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@MistyBluefla This is fantastically dishonest. That conviction was overturned because a psychiatrist had given false testimony. In the re-trial, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

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@mactellomckeown Where does the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party fit into this? (I wouldn’t characterise them as left or right, but one might argue this leaves pro-Israel advocates with a natural home in the centre, at least as it exists in US.)

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@residentadviser What did Williamson do?

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@livelaughlo_l_z Who are you referring to?

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@UnionJacked__ When McSweeney was director of Labour Together, he visited Corbyn (nominally) to share results from polling of Lab members. Get In (iirc) records JC as being more interested in talking about Gramsci than what McSweeney had to say.

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@hw_moore To what extent is the reputation of sociology as unrigorous justified?

The only sociology(-adjacent) papers I’ve read are Pager 2002 and Pager 2022, published in AJS and ASR. Both were essentially randomised control trials.

Neither left me with an impression of “softness”.

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@Peter88902568 A bench in every postcode

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@AntoineSpeaker @guardian “And guardian using poor sources Which they should acknowledge”

Which article or claim does this refer to?

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@watling_samuel Sir, have you read anything on Letby by Richard Gill?

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@Peter88902568 I chuckled audibly, sir.