David Hugh-Jones

 I'm moving a lot of my non-academic writing to substack . Expect more about society, politics and social science. You can read it onlin...

This is a hard blogpost to write. My usual view of socialism is absolutely this tweet by Elon Musk: But it is a good mental exercise to cons...

On the plane to India in 1994, I flicked through the in-flight magazine. Between adverts for Scotch whisky and American suits, it had a feat...

As statues fall, and debate roils about the West’s colonial past, we need expert witnesses. Does Edward Colston belong in the street, a mus...

Two kinds of graffiti have popped up in town. One is in the underpass near my house: a massive BLACK LIVES MATTER, written over about 20 yar...

The law of iterated expectations is a statistical fact which looks like this: E[X] = E[ E[X | Y] ] (Don't run away. The point is c...

Never say "beyond reasonable doubt". No sooner had I made this boast than Panu Pelkonen called my bluff on twitter: ...