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Andi Fugard

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<p>Social policy evaluator. Based in <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>London</span></a> UK; <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RStats</span></a> user. Personal account – views mine.
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    @drandrewv2 including teams within organisations - strong agree

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    A vote is not a love letter, it’s a choice between populism and substance; whether you want your ward’s councillors to be capable of delivering the services you rely on, weighed against how much you want to punish the PM; constrained by your sense of who can win and who shouldn’t be a councillor 😵‍💫

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    UK PMs&amp;#39; remaining time in office and the number of ministerial resignations. PMs from Thatcher to Sunak; resignations classified by IfG as due to &amp;quot;disagreement&amp;quot;. Data from Institute for Government at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1gVHNx4kzXd947AFfQGiJg5zJrdNXrM81t2OC8UJFnw8/htmlview

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    Interesting example of theorising in paper by Kotler et al. (2026), &amp;quot;The body does not keep the score&amp;quot;. I haven&amp;#39;t read van der Kolk&amp;#39;s (2014) classic The Body Keeps the Score, which they critique, but I don&amp;#39;t think that critique is central to their claims. I also don&amp;#39;t think their analysis needs Friston&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;free energy principle&amp;quot;. Excerpts here: https://andifugard.info/the-body-does-not-keep-the-score/

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    David Lammy: &amp;quot;you don’t change the pilot during a flight.&amp;quot; Guardian article idea, written by a senior UK airline captain: the circumstances in which a first officer or relief pilot is required to take control of an aircraft, drawing on CAA and other industry guidance.

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    I&amp;#39;ve disappeared down is-ought and deontic logic rabbit holes. Fun stuff, combining my current job in social policy evaluation with my past in the psychology of reasoning and computer science. https://andifugard.info/what-should-the-is-ought-thesis-state/

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    Interesting paper by Paul Cairney (2025) on the Westminster Model (WM) of policymaking - why it&amp;#39;s obviously wrong but still useful when pondering what needs to be tweaked to help it match reality. Couple of quotes and open access link over here: https://andifugard.info/the-westminster-model-and-why-its-useful-even-though-its-wrong/

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    Hi