Politics

A government department’s open consultation on whether to extend its own open consultation has closed with a record number of responses, making it the most-engaged-with consultation the department has issued in the current fiscal year — and considerably more popular than the regulatory review it was originally designed to support. The original consultation, which sought public and stakeholder views on proposed changes to a national framework, ran for twelve … Consultation On Whether To Extend Consultation Draws Largest Response Since Original ConsultationRead more

A policy think tank has published a new report claiming it has finally solved a longstanding problem in public debate: numbers keep being used as if they mean something. The group’s solution is a new metric, the Vibes Accountability Index, which converts everyday emotions into neat scores that can be cited with the authority of a spreadsheet. The report begins in a familiar register, promising “rigour,” “transparency,” and a … Think Tank Launches ‘Vibes Accountability Index’ To Measure Concern In Real TimeRead more

A policy think tank has published a new report claiming it has finally solved a longstanding problem in public debate: numbers keep being used as if they mean something. The group’s solution is a new metric, the National Mood Ledger, which converts everyday emotions into neat scores that can be cited with the authority of a spreadsheet. The report begins in a familiar register, promising “rigour,” “transparency,” and a … Think Tank Launches ‘National Mood Ledger’ To Measure Mild Annoyance In Real TimeRead more

A policy think tank has published a new report claiming it has finally solved a longstanding problem in public debate: numbers keep being used as if they mean something. The group’s solution is a new metric, the Public Feeling Dashboard, which converts everyday emotions into neat scores that can be cited with the authority of a spreadsheet. The report begins in a familiar register, promising “rigour,” “transparency,” and a … Think Tank Launches ‘Public Feeling Dashboard’ To Measure Certainty In Real TimeRead more

A policy think tank has published a new report claiming it has finally solved a longstanding problem in public debate: numbers keep being used as if they mean something. The group’s solution is a new metric, the Public Feeling Dashboard, which converts everyday emotions into neat scores that can be cited with the authority of a spreadsheet. The report begins in a familiar register, promising “rigour,” “transparency,” and a … Think Tank Launches ‘Public Feeling Dashboard’ To Measure Mild Annoyance In Real TimeRead more

A parliamentary select committee formed to examine the effectiveness of existing oversight mechanisms has published its final report, concluding that any meaningful examination of how scrutiny currently operates would itself require a dedicated scrutiny process — one which falls outside the committee’s original terms of reference. The Accountability Review Committee, which sat for eleven months and gathered evidence from forty-two witnesses — including four who had previously given evidence … Select Committee Concludes That Scrutiny Of Scrutiny Processes Would Itself Require Scrutiny, Recommends ReviewRead more

A policy think tank has published a new report claiming it has finally solved a longstanding problem in public debate: numbers keep being used as if they mean something. The group’s solution is a new metric, the National Mood Ledger, which converts everyday emotions into neat scores that can be cited with the authority of a spreadsheet. The report begins in a familiar register, promising “rigour,” “transparency,” and a … Think Tank Launches ‘National Mood Ledger’ To Measure Patience In Real TimeRead more

A policy think tank has published a new report claiming it has finally solved a longstanding problem in public debate: numbers keep being used as if they mean something. The group’s solution is a new metric, the Vibes Accountability Index, which converts everyday emotions into neat scores that can be cited with the authority of a spreadsheet. The report begins in a familiar register, promising “rigour,” “transparency,” and a … Think Tank Launches ‘Vibes Accountability Index’ To Measure Confidence In Real TimeRead more

A policy think tank has published a new report claiming it has finally solved a longstanding problem in public debate: numbers keep being used as if they mean something. The group’s solution is a new metric, the Public Feeling Dashboard, which converts everyday emotions into neat scores that can be cited with the authority of a spreadsheet. The report begins in a familiar register, promising “rigour,” “transparency,” and a … Think Tank Launches ‘Public Feeling Dashboard’ To Measure Concern In Real TimeRead more

A policy think tank has published a new report claiming it has finally solved a longstanding problem in public debate: numbers keep being used as if they mean something. The group’s solution is a new metric, the Sentiment Evidence Register, which converts everyday emotions into neat scores that can be cited with the authority of a spreadsheet. The report begins in a familiar register, promising “rigour,” “transparency,” and a … Think Tank Launches ‘Sentiment Evidence Register’ To Measure Certainty In Real TimeRead more