Martina Milburn
: What Makes a Great Role Model
Alistair Darling
: Salmond's Default Position Bankrupts His Credibility
Nicola Sturgeon
: Scotland Has Every Right to Be Confident About Our Economic Prospects
Duncan Weldon
: Chancellor Should Heed IMF Advice and Increase Infrastructure Spending Now
Harry Cooper
: A Referendum on Europe Tomorrow Would Not Stop Ukip
The UK faces challenges of such enormity that we urgently need to reconnect with, and put all our trust in, the political class.
It must be very frustrating to spend months working on The Budget only to find that the whole thing is reduced to a few choice words: granny tax and pasty-gate.
Research on how people make judgements suggests that we all too often rely upon skewed models of how the world works and perverse common sense. In making sense of the world, we are vulnerable creatures, easily swayed by rhetoric and slogans.
