After six Prime Ministers in 10 years, can anyone govern the U.K.? ⁠57%

6/25/2026, 5:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Pessimism Bias, Framing Effect, and Anecdotal, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 72.7% saturation with 64 hits. Analysis detected 261 faulty-reasoning hits from 88 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 53.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠57% (9,610 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 56.10% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%CBC: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 3.1%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 30.7%CBC: 4.2%Framing Effect30.7%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 14.8%CBC: 4.0%Optimism Bias14.8%This article: 43.2%CBC: 1.4%Pessimism Bias43.2%This article: 72.7%CBC: 5.7%Negativity Bias72.7%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 3.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 3.7%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 27.3%CBC: 1.3%False Dilemma27.3%This article: 15.9%CBC: 0.4%Slippery Slope15.9%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 14.8%CBC: 4.8%Hasty Generalization14.8%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 15.9%CBC: 4.2%Appeal to Emotion15.9%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 30.7%CBC: 3.3%Anecdotal30.7%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 14.8%CBC: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy14.8%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 4.8%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 15.9%CBC: 2.4%Indoctrination15.9%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

88 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker16%attributed speech74writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageCory Doctorow • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverage
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Cory Doctorow

100%flagged-word coverage
14 attributed words100% of attributed speech86% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Indoctrination+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Cory Doctorow: 100.0%100.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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