A recent study reported the results of an experiment where homeless people were given cash as broadly positive. Yet digging into the results, you find that the researchers' main hypothesis was completely unsupported.
People with mental health conditions and a history of substance abuse are massively overrepresented among the homeless. Yet homelessness doesn't seem to correlate with those two factors across U.S. states.
Last week, many Conservative councils fell to Labour and the Lib Dems. But will the cities these woke councillors now control go the same way as San Francisco? Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph sounds the alarm.
