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Have you considered inviting David Shor on for a discussion? Cummings certainly thinks Shor’s analysis and data-driven political insights are worth paying attention to.

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Re: Brexit, you will never stop Remainers from remoaning ad infinitum. They refused to accept the result, 51.89% to 48.11% (notice how your correspondent tries to fiddle the numbers to make his side look more favourable). They fought against it in parliament, trying every trick in the book to thwart it and long-held constitutional norms. They tried to tie Johnson's hands in negotiations, cynically trying to engineer failure and side with the EU. In response, the UK electorate kicked them up the backside, Twitterati be damned. Today, they continue, blaming everything that could go wrong in the country on Brexit. Look, Johnson is a clown, and the country will have to reckon with his decisions, but on the EU, the choice to leave and reassert national sovereignty, joining the ranks of countless other nations who don't live inside these posturing elitist federations, was a good one.

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"complicated flouting of Covid rules"? What was "complicated" about traveling hundreds of miles when there was a travel ban in place? And when he was exhibiting covid symptoms? And I, as an American, remember all this perfectly well.

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How on earth does a subscriber comment on the Weekly Dish? Or email Andrew Sullivan? I’m throwing this out blindly because comments seem to be mostly disabled and I see no reference to an email address anywhere on Andrew’s site or substack. Maybe someone in the Dishcast universe might randomly see this and reply.

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Hi this is Chris, Andrew's longtime colleague. The Dish has always had a policy against a comments section (and readers voted against a comments section multiple times): https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/threads/the-dish-on-comments/ But we've always had a vigorous culture of dissent -- constantly posting critical emails from readers on a range of issues, via dish@andrewsullivan.com

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Thank you! I’m fine without a comments section, just every now and then have wanted to respond to a podcast or an article. All positive, of course lol.

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We especially like the critical comments but also appreciate the positive ones :)

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I liked the Cummings interview, but am not a close follower of British politics.

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