HSBC chose to ignore or completely discount information it has on its own records on the grounds of ‘safe-guarding’ and petty box-ticking rather than rely on other far more reliant evidence to assess money-laundering risks.
Modelling has tended to ignore social factors when predicting viral spread – no wonder the experts are stumped.
In one of the most striking chapters of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov Grushenka tells Alexei a story, a parable of redemption:
There is no doubt that hospitals are currently under severe pressure, particularly in those regions of the UK where the new variant of the virus
The level playing field (LPF) negotiations between the UK and the EU seem to have been bedevilled by a lack of clarity about fundamental issues
Exponential growth bias (EGB) is one of a long list of cognitive biases identified by psychologists and perceptions of it and its prevalence have come
In 2006 the Better Regulation Commission published a rather good document titled “Risk, Responsibility and Regulation: whose risk is it anyway?”. In the introduction it
David Frost’s ULB lecture of the 17 February exhibits a strategic coherence unmatched in previous statements by UK officials or politicians speaking about the future
Simplify, simplify, simplify! (Thoreau) In the face of very complex sets of challenges, good policy strategy generally seeks simplification, based on a fundamental recognition that
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