So, rejecting The Smiths was not the smartest call a pop critic could have made.
In 2012, Will Hutton argued that the political right across the west was "giving up on the Enlightenment" and in doing so rejecting "tolerance, reason, democratic argument, progress and the drive for social betterment as cornerstones of society".
No one listens to Britain any more, of course, but the Foreign Office needs to pretend that they do – so rejecting our regional agreement on human rights might have been a tad embarrassing for our itinerant moral philosopher on his ethical travels.
Moreover, this highlights the fact that stringent statistical testing, such as this, with high sampling may lead to rejecting the power-law hypothesis and so rejecting the criticality hypothesis even when the system is critical.
Astronomers once used that name for what turned out to be a nonexistent planet inside Mercury's orbit, and its connection to the mythological Pluto was tenuous; so rejecting the name was—as Mr. Spock might say the logical thing to do.
And, so, rejecting Donald Trump isn't enough.
