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Robert Colvile
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Throughout the pandemic, to a rough approximation, every single UK policy success has been built on a good database. And every single policy failure has resulted from a bad/nonexistent one.
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But there's also a big risk here of 'the map is the territory'. A big reason that HMT/HMRC haven't done as much to help the self-employed in this crisis (and
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Essentially, a policy is easy to do if you can adjust an existing database easily, and almost impossible to do if you can't. This of course plays into the debate
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The vaccine passports debate is a perfect illustration of my new working theory: that the most important part of modern government, and its most important limitation, is database management. Please
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However it ends, the row over Universal Credit tells us some incredibly depressing things about politics and policy in this country. A quick thread. First, the constituency for fiscal discipline
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Everyone is dunking on @toadmeister for being unable to tell 1% from 0.1%. But there's a much bigger problem with any kind of claim that the IFR (infection fatality rate)
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.@alexwickham has further blood-curdling briefing this morning on the No 10 wars. But there is a theme in there which sounds warning bells for the future (1/?) I worked on
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Have been thinking about Cain/Cummings, and it strikes me that there's something deeper at work here. Every single No 10 administration in recent years has had huge problems/divisions. (1/?) For
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Have been thinking about the parallels between UK and US elections, and the most obvious one is about geography - in particular, metropolis vs periphery (1/?) We're seeing all these
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Kudos to @BBCr4today for asking me to discuss one of the more interesting aspects of the Desmond saga - why planning consents for a London borough are ending up on
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