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Thursday 26 October 2023

Inadvertent mistakes



Labour's Rachel Reeves urged to 'explain herself' amid 'plagiarism' row over 20 examples of other people's unattributed work found in her new book - as shadow chancellor

She said 'inadvertent mistakes' in The Women Who Made Modern Economics 

Labour's Rachel Reeves is at the centre of a row over alleged plagiarism today after 20 unattributed examples of other people's work were found in her new book.


But what we call experience is merely the revelation to our own eyes of a trait in our character which naturally reappears, and reappears all the more markedly because we have already brought it into prominence once of our own accord, so that the spontaneous impulse which guided us on the first occasion finds itself reinforced by all the suggestions of memory. The human plagiarism which it is most difficult to avoid, for individuals (and even for nations which persevere in their faults and continue to aggravate them) is the plagiarism of ourselves.

Marcel Proust or Rachel Reeves

5 comments:

Sam Vega said...

"Chat GPT, write a budget statement with the following figures..."

Doonhamer said...

But Marcel would have written it in French.

decnine said...

So, politicians also make deliberate mistakes?

Tammly said...

But surely plagiarism cannot really exist in the left wing collectivist world? Any work carried out by an individual, belongs to the socialist 'hive'.

A K Haart said...

Sam - bound to come if it hasn't already.

Doonhamer - must be Rachel in that case. I wonder if she wrote all of it?

decnine - or they don't pay enough attention to their own words.

Tammly - and ownership is theft.