So, Nr47 “announces” the take-over of the Gaza Strip by the United States. Cue not only a storm of protest and comment by the international community, but also the immediate pivot to the new “outrage” of “stroke of genius” (depending on your tribe) by the domestic media. All of whom fall once again into the culture war trap set for them. Yes the idea is...
No apologies for the convoluted tense in that – bear with me. What I ve been thinking about recently is an engineering approach to amatuer pol-sci: Namely which manageable raft of metrics ought I to define now, to set a baseline and then to track regularly going forward, in order to work out what the delivery trends are on the areas of policy, beyond the ethical, which define our daily...