OPINION Anne McElvoy Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer are now both winning and losing at the very same time
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On my slight acquaintance with quantum physics, the most appealing concept is Erwin Schrödinger’s thought experiment of the dead and alive cat. You might remember how it goes: the luckless feline is sealed in a box with poison and a radioactive atom, the observer cannot know if the cat survives or not until the box is opened, so while in the box it is both dead and alive simultaneously. Writing amid the turbulence of science and politics in the Thirties, Schrödinger demonstrated the impact external observation has on any experiment and its conclusions. But the idea popped into my head as a strangely adept metaphor for the battles at Westminster.
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