Chris Dillow has a piece in today's Times - it's essentially a summary of his views on managerialism (those familar with his blog or who've read his book will find little new in it), but it's still worth reading.
Policy failures aren’t due to having the wrong personnel in charge. Nor are they exceptions to the rule of general competence. They are the inevitable result of bad organisational structure.
While not quite in the same league, I've also put up a post on Alex's blog about the paradox of the Gospels, which you might want to have a look at.
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Of course, in that very paradox is one of the greatest strengths of Christianity and the more plausible it actually is.
You might have to expand on that a little for me.
It was never presented as a 'fait accompli'. They were separate texts which then spawned other texts and the manner in which they appeared was consistent with their purpose. That there were discrepancies is very much in keeping with eye-witness accounts in any field.
They were texts of the time in the same way as Josephus and Tacitus but the reason they're attacked is because of their subject. Ig it had been the life and times of Joe Bloggs, they'd never have occasioned such discussion.
They would if the claims about Joe Bloggs were extraordinary - no amount of historical testimony would be enough to establish that he was 15 foot tall and breathed fire, for example.
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