“It combines almost comic desperation… with a breathtaking cynicism.”
Andrew Simms, director of the New Economics Forum, after a leaked briefing paper suggested that the UK government should try to wriggle out of European Union targets for renewable energy (The Times, London, 13 August)
“Physicians who had higher biases against blacks were less likely to recommend thrombolysis for blacks.”
Alexander R. Green of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, who studied racial bias in doctors, as measured by a psychological test, and their willingness to prescribe a clot-busting drug to a fictitious patient (The Washington Post, 13 August)
“I guess the mentality is that because you are an…
