It is risk assessment rather than risk taking that humans are conspicuously shit at. All the species capable of aspiration, social organisation, nurturing of offspring etc are capable of risk taking. The extent appears to be determined by what is perceived to be at stake. Warrior classes (of...
I may have given the impression that I consider Cummings a disgrace, and am keen to see the back of Boris. This is correct.
However at the time, and subsequently, I felt that the decision to act slowly, so as to preclude pancic buying and a hysterical backlash (yes, I don't trust the public...