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'The Lisbon treaty passed with a 346 to 206 division in 2008'
After is had already been rejected as the European Constitution.
Commented Apr 8, 2017 on The paradoxes of plebiscites at Stumbling and Mumbling
The paradoxes of plebiscites
In pointing out that re-joining the EU will be damnably difficult, Simon reminds us of the massive difference between representative democracy and plebiscitary politics. One great virtue of representative democracy is that it allows for mistakes to be corrected. Wrong’uns can be booted out of of...
Best research now, Chris, seems to be that stereotype threat doesn't exist, or is negligible. At least, when you claim flatly that it's 'real', you may want to hedge that quite a bit.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022440514000831
http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1206&context=faculty_scholarship
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14736315
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201512/is-stereotype-threat-overcooked-overstated-and-oversold
and more and more.
Commented Sep 18, 2016 on Grammar schools & stereotype threat at Stumbling and Mumbling
Grammar schools & stereotype threat
In the debate about grammar schools, everybody assumes that it is those who pass the 11+ who should be admitted to them. But why should this be? Mightn’t it be more efficient instead to admit those who do badly? I ask because of some recent experiments by Victor Gonzales at Tilburg University. H...
Hari created a sockpuppet to smear Cristina Odone by claiming she was antisemitic; and he threatened David Toube at harry's Place with a libel action.
How were reactions to him disproportionately hostile? How is Toby Young worse?
Commented Sep 18, 2011 on Our illiberal culture at Stumbling and Mumbling
Our illiberal culture
One of the most unpleasant aspects of the last Labour government was the illiberalism that saw it create over 4000 new criminal offences. However, it’s becoming clear that, in this regard, Labour was merely reflecting a censoriousness culture. Take these examples: - two men were jailed for four ...
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