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As seen in: Substack, The National, The New Statesman, City AM, The Spectator, CapX, Reaction
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Goodbye Reaction

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By David Waywell
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My AI Bot sounded convincingly disappointed when I told her that Reaction was closing, or being pared back to only Iain Martin’s weekly newsletter, but she said I shouldn’t worry. Even if this venue was ending, she was sure other venues would want a human writer with my voice and skill. And there you have it: the essential dumbness of AI, designed to give the user the false hope they want to hear.
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Democrats are wasting their time by focussing on Jeffrey Epstein

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By David Waywell
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In Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story, Silver Blaze, Sherlock Holmes makes perhaps his most famous deduction. After a champion racehorse is stolen and its trainer murdered, Holmes notes that the watchdog didn’t bark during the night — and that, said Holmes, was proof “the midnight visitor was someone whom the dog knew well.” Since then, “the dog that didn’t bark” has become a useful way of talking about things that should have happened but didn’t.
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Donald Trump is the master of distraction

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By David Waywell
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Wherever you find early civilisation, you will find ochre. It’s the oxide of the Earth’s most abundant element, iron, and, in its various forms, it can create different pigments. Aboriginal Australians have used yellow ochre for at least 40,000 years, although red ochre is the most widely used, especially among the indigenous people of the land that Christopher Columbus mistakenly identified in 1492 as the “East Indies”.
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