Tag Archives: Stupidity

A matter of policy

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There is currently a bit of a kerfuffle going on on the platform formally known as twitter. Oddly the source of this is someone asking that a party they might naturally support do a better job of things, now whilst their town might rub some people up the wrong way it’s hardly an unreasonable demand. However this has caused some people who are more strongly aligned with the party in question to declare that asking a party to do better, and pointing out it’s flaws is unhelpful bordering on treasonous. These people could of course just mute, block and generally … Continue reading →

The peoples histrionics

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Yet again we’re told that democracy is under threat, our conditional niceties are being ignored and we’re days away from the death of democracy and people being rounded up into gas chambers (seriously people are actually saying this). The cause this time is Mr Johnson asking the Queen to prorogue Parliament so that she can give a speech explaining what he wants to do now he’s in charge. This is in fact entirely normal, constitutional and legal. “Ah but!”, they cry, “he’s done it to suit his agenda not ours”. To which quite frankly the only response one can give … Continue reading →

Confirmation bias writ large

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As our Government continues to find new levels of incompetence the abandonment of reason seems to be reaching fever pitch amongst those that feel that the whole referendum thing was a huge mistake. Usually sceptical friends that ask that things be fact checked and evidence be provided have seemingly abandoned all critical thinking when it comes to the campaign to revoke article 50. The latest petition, created by someone with quite a dubious background, is watched with baited breath as the count creeps ever upwards. This petition despite all the dubious names signed up to it is seen as some … Continue reading →