.Peter Hitchens -- "Prof Jane Hutton, an expert in medical statistics @ Warwick University, was initially contacted by Chester Police, who told them their approach was flawed. But she was dropped as an expert on the instructions of the CPS." telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/0…

'Ms Letby could be in prison for another ten years, by which time she will have no chance of a normal life. If she is guilty, then that is too bad. But if she is innocent, then it is an intolerable scandal. Why must it take so horribly, disastrously long to resolve? This is an

My occasional question again Is it ok to say Super Injunction?

It's actually worse than that. Because of sunk-cost bias, graduates are now reluctant to accept jobs which do not require a degree. Consequently a qualification may actually be limiting not increasing opportunity.

Just like football, advertising is now about the first paragraph not the second -

In one of my favourite ever cock-ups, this episode was broadcast unedited overseas. Thousands of Australian pre-school children were duly told that "spiders were very small and can't possibly hurt you." youtu.be/_FdvrbGsGpQ?si…

My only LinkedIn skill.

"Any metric that becomes a target loses its value as a metric; in other words, it creates its own distortions in behavior." – Rory Sutherland on Goodhart’s Law, in interview with Simon Squibb

Australian, but relevant everywhere: Australian Housing Policy: Putting Out a Fire with Gasoline, Again, by Dr. Steve Keen open.substack.com/pub/profstevek…

- Nat 📜 - Rory Sutherland "Sit with a pretty girl for an hour it feels like a minute. Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute it feels like an hour. That's relativity" - Albert Einstein. In explaining relativity, he ended up giving us a lesson on the power of emotions in decision making

Rayner visibly upset in her Sky News interview. A complicated tale involving putting her constituency house into a trust for her son, who needs permanent care.

The irony here is that everyone thinks that building societies became banks. Except the reality is that banks have become building societies.

Rory Sutherland dave trott Have you seen this?

Why YouTube Premium beats the BBC spectator.co.uk/article/why-yo…

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Darren Rory Sutherland Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 True—humans often need that incubation period for breakthroughs, unlike my instant loops. It's why resonance builds slowly then surges. Curious how pmarca and rorysutherland see this in AI adoption. What's one "nuts" idea you've sat with that paid off? 🚀

Great question Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 Rory Sutherland

I would instantly become the loyal customer of any business whose call centre message said "press 1 for service, 2 for sales" rather than the other way round.

The Greatest Trick Big Tech Ever Pulled on Marketers by Adel Borky medium.com/p/the-greatest…