Keir Starmer Source: Chris McAndrewHuman error, wrote Prof. James Reason in his book on that widespread phenomenon, is a large subject, and so is stupidity. Moreover, we should find a world without stupidity very dull. In the first article I read in the edition of the magazine devoted to the psychology of stupidity, the author takes Mao’s Great Leap Forward as a historical example of the harm that stupidity can do. As the author rightly says, Mao’s policy resulted in a hecatomb, but that is not sufficient to prove its stupidity. It is always of doubtful explanatory value to ascribe stupidity to politicians who are, from the point of view of achieving power, quite successful.