What the Backroom is good for, and what it is not

[Montmorency]

This is something we see increasingly in the backroom from all sides - disagreement is taken to be indicative of a moral fault.

That's not generally what I'm doing though, and as an aside I hope you recognize that sometimes disagreement can be indicative of a moral fault.

Monty wears me down sometimes, and Pan about the Brexit. Mostly I enjoy the interplay.

I understand the ideal is not to try to "persuade" anyone of anything but leave them to independently come to a similar conclusion indirectly. Call it a limitation. I've never been able to formulate a gentle process to introduce the assertion that available evidence significantly undermines one's assumptions or interpretations. Sorry.