Cummings v Milne: The big strategic mistake, & the question facing the Labour party.
Stephen Jay Gould was a controversial palaeontologist due to his belief in ‘Punctuated Equilibrium’. Whilst accepting that Natural Selection is usually slow, grinding, and gradual change, Gould also highlighted that the archaeological record was punctuated with wild collisions of change, like the Cambrian Explosion, which dramatically redraw the landscape of life.
The philosopher Thomas Kuhn similarly became infamous for his theory that describes how the scientific orthodoxy rarely…
