In what or whom do we trust?

Professional judgement needs to stand tall in the gap between modelling and opinion

John Dales

I'm writing this on the way back from a first-ever visit to a political party conference, in this case the Conservatives’. Given that I’d been invited to speak at a fringe event on the often-vexed subject of free parking, I was indebted to the Chancellor for having earlier set the scene by railing against a ‘something for nothing’ culture.

On the train up to Birmingham, I’d encountered a report in The Times headlined “DfT ‘could be sued over growth...

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