On the question of which broadcaster is better - Channel 4 News.

Conspicuously bad for headlines, I would say. A similar approach worked for Osborne, but Labour was never going to face a comparably pliant media, and the incredible thing is that they seemingly didn't expect this.

I was annoyed by all the "growth, growth, growth" rhetoric in 2024, but if Labour really did have a serious plan for growth, that would have been much better than indecision, paralysis, and arbitrary fiscal rules throttling any investment in growth, i.e. no consistent plan for any particular goal.

To be fair, Reeves has become adept at gaming her own rules: the all-important goal of a forecasted balanced budget in 5yrs is achieved by tax rises deferred to 2028-31 that may well never happen. All of govt subordinated to the great project of chasing arbitrary stats with imagined future actions.

Is there any correlation with gender?

How to make sense of a disagreement like that between Dawkins and Noble?

Here, I think @birchlse.bsky.social comment of sub-field competition (originally made in a different context) is helpful

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There’s been a devastating loss of insects across the uk since 1960! Can remember long car journeys in the 60s & 70s resulting in the windscreen of the family car being covered in insect strikes (splats), but the same journey nowadays, nothing! Not a single insect! No insects, no birds! No birds…