davek
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Ridiculous response: you accept his words on the environment as relevant even though he's in no position to address it, but then reject any view that he needs to set out an ethical viewpoint on the slaughter in Gaza.
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davek
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How arrogant and dozy do you have to be to plagiarise 20 times and hope to get away with it?
What an example this fraud sets...
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Rachel Reeves admits mistakes after being accused of plagiarism in new book
Shadow chancellor says she holds her ‘hands up’ FT analysis finds book on female economists has passages that appear to be copied
davek
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Reeves plagiarism examples:
A 2021 foreword to a report on global development by Benn, for Tony Blair’s Global Change thinktank, is one of the excerpts that appears to have been reworked in the book without acknowledgment.
Benn wrote: “When we were elected in 1997, the amount of aid we gave as a proportion of our national income had halved over the preceding 18 years and was just 0.26%. By the time we left office, we were on our way to achieving the 0.7% target. This was down to the political leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who brought the lives of the world’s poorest people into the heart of Whitehall.”
Reeves’s book says: “When Labour was elected in 1997, the amount of aid the UK gave as a proportion of our national income had halved over the preceding 18 years and stood at just 0.26%. By the end of Labour’s time in office, in 2010, we were on our way to achieving the 0.7% target. This was down to the political leadership of Blair and Gordon Brown – and their first secretary of state for international development from 1997 to 2002, Clare Short, who brought the lives of the world’s poorest people into the heart of government.”
The FT also found a passage in Reeves’s book about the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe that is very similar to an obituary published in the Guardian in 2001.
The obituary, by Jane O’Grady, says: “Once, entering a smart restaurant in Boston, she was told that ladies were not admitted in trousers. She simply took them off.”
Reeves writes: “Once, when entering a smart restaurant in Boston, she was told that ladies were not admitted in trousers, so she took them off there and then!”
The FT reported that it found the similarities without using plagiarism detection software. It cited a number of examples from Wikipedia. These include an account of a clash between the writer HG Wells and Beatrice Webb, the social reformer and key figure in the Fabian Society.
Reeves writes: “For her part, Beatrice voiced disapproval of Wells’s ‘sordid intrigue’ with the daughter of a veteran Fabian member. He responded by lampooning the couple in his 1911 novel The New Machiavelli as Altiora and Oscar Bailey, a pair of short-sighted, bourgeois manipulators.”
The Wikipedia entry on Webb says: “For her part, Beatrice voiced disapproval of Wells’ ‘sordid intrigue’ with the daughter of a veteran Fabian Sydney Olivier. He responded by lampooning the couple in his 1911 novel The New Machiavelli as Altiora and Oscar Bailey, a pair of short-sighted, bourgeois manipulators.”
What a 'kin cheat.
A 2021 foreword to a report on global development by Benn, for Tony Blair’s Global Change thinktank, is one of the excerpts that appears to have been reworked in the book without acknowledgment.
Benn wrote: “When we were elected in 1997, the amount of aid we gave as a proportion of our national income had halved over the preceding 18 years and was just 0.26%. By the time we left office, we were on our way to achieving the 0.7% target. This was down to the political leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who brought the lives of the world’s poorest people into the heart of Whitehall.”
Reeves’s book says: “When Labour was elected in 1997, the amount of aid the UK gave as a proportion of our national income had halved over the preceding 18 years and stood at just 0.26%. By the end of Labour’s time in office, in 2010, we were on our way to achieving the 0.7% target. This was down to the political leadership of Blair and Gordon Brown – and their first secretary of state for international development from 1997 to 2002, Clare Short, who brought the lives of the world’s poorest people into the heart of government.”
The FT also found a passage in Reeves’s book about the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe that is very similar to an obituary published in the Guardian in 2001.
The obituary, by Jane O’Grady, says: “Once, entering a smart restaurant in Boston, she was told that ladies were not admitted in trousers. She simply took them off.”
Reeves writes: “Once, when entering a smart restaurant in Boston, she was told that ladies were not admitted in trousers, so she took them off there and then!”
The FT reported that it found the similarities without using plagiarism detection software. It cited a number of examples from Wikipedia. These include an account of a clash between the writer HG Wells and Beatrice Webb, the social reformer and key figure in the Fabian Society.
Reeves writes: “For her part, Beatrice voiced disapproval of Wells’s ‘sordid intrigue’ with the daughter of a veteran Fabian member. He responded by lampooning the couple in his 1911 novel The New Machiavelli as Altiora and Oscar Bailey, a pair of short-sighted, bourgeois manipulators.”
The Wikipedia entry on Webb says: “For her part, Beatrice voiced disapproval of Wells’ ‘sordid intrigue’ with the daughter of a veteran Fabian Sydney Olivier. He responded by lampooning the couple in his 1911 novel The New Machiavelli as Altiora and Oscar Bailey, a pair of short-sighted, bourgeois manipulators.”
What a 'kin cheat.
Thomasc
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I’m just off to check the Conservative thread to make sure you are scrutinising them equally as thorough as this.How arrogant and dozy do you have to be to plagiarise 20 times and hope to get away with it?
What an example this fraud sets...
Rachel Reeves admits mistakes after being accused of plagiarism in new book
Shadow chancellor says she holds her ‘hands up’ FT analysis finds book on female economists has passages that appear to be copied
davek
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Who gives a toss about those sleazy gets? They're finished.
The Starmer Tory Party are the only party worth scrutinising now.
Thomasc
Formerly known as By God I'm Blue
Starmer is our means to an end.
Once they are gone and Starmer starts to struggle, Mr Burnham can step forward and challenge for leadership again and claim his rightful position.
davek
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Leave me out of it.
davek
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New book from UK shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves lifts from Wikipedia
‘The Women Who Made Modern Economics’ contains examples of apparent plagiarism
Dave is right here, lads.
Starmer and labour now seem above any criticism.
Imagine if a tory front bencher was found to have plagiarised pages for their book.
Starmer and labour now seem above any criticism.
Imagine if a tory front bencher was found to have plagiarised pages for their book.
davek
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20 times btw. Pure and simply a cheat.
She's an arrogant neo-liberal scumbag who will be shaping all our lives over the next few years.
It's a bit like comparing a community at risk of rising sea levels and a community that is flooded right now. He can have an input on how he would tackle the former as the timescales are much longer, but for the latter you need people who are in power to do something about it right now.
And if someone doesn't give a toss about either community and only has focus for having a go at yet another Jewish lead leadership?
NilSatisOptimum
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Not a good source if we are going down the academic plagiarism route.New book from UK shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves lifts from Wikipedia
‘The Women Who Made Modern Economics’ contains examples of apparent plagiarismwww.ft.com
As all legal barriers ended in February 2023 on Rupert Murdoch interfering in the editorial independence of the Times and the Sunday Times they had been in place since he bought the newspapers in 1981.
This was done by none other than Nadine Dorries
NilSatisOptimum
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Sort of big deal and so what spring to mind.
Sometimes existing ideas / inventions are right first time.
My car still uses round wheels.
Back in my day 2006 you had change around 40% of the original text to get accused of plagiarism...
Why have an opinion on anything until you're in power, right?
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