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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
A political syllogism
In the course of a posting on Polly Toynbee and Housing Information Packs, James Graham nicely characterises a certain style of Labourite reasoning:
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Clearly something must be done about that flawed thinking.
I first came across this described as the politicians syllogism in "Yes Minister". Perhaps you need to attribute it?
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