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• ‟ A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from charlatans.

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• ‟ There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics.

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• ‟ I've learned over the years that 'rational discussion' accomplishes almost nothing in politics, particularly with people better educated than average.

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• ‟ Almost all analysis of politics and government considers relatively surface phenomena.

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• ‟ Until the 20th century, medicine was more like politics than physics. Its forecasts were often bogus and its record grim. In the 1920s, statisticians invaded medicine and devised randomised controlled trials. Doctors, hating the challenge to their prestige, resisted but lost. Evidence-based medicine became routine and saved millions of lives.

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• ‟ Politics does the equivalent of constantly trying to reinvent children's arithmetic and botching it. It does not build reliable foundations of knowledge.

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• ‟ People in politics tend to spend far too much time on higher profile issues affecting few people and too little time on such basic processes that affect thousands or millions and which we know how to do much better.

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• ‟ If you think of politics as 'serious people focusing seriously on the most important questions,' which is the default mode of most educated people and the media (but not the less-educated public which has better instincts), then your model of reality is badly wrong.

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• ‟ In January 2014 I left the Department for Education and spent the next 18 months away from politics.

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• ‟ In physics we have developed models that are extremely accurate across vastly different scales from the sub-atomic to the visible universe. In politics we have bumbled along making the same sort of errors repeatedly.

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• ‟ Politics is profoundly nonlinear.

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• ‟ Usually in politics everything is done on hunches.

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• ‟ Despite the centrality of communication to politics it is remarkable how little attention Insiders pay to what works - never mind the question 'what could work much better?'

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• ‟ Billionaires who want to influence politics could get better 'returns on investment' than from early stage Amazon.

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