Because we now define accountability in terms of following rules, not achieving desired results, everything costs a lot, but nothing works well. For example, a police force which follows a thousand procedural rules has no time to arrest phone thieves.

I wish my wife looked at me the way Peston looks at Starmer.

A day or two late, but funny anyway…..

If you are a nationalist wailing and gnashing your teeth at the closure of Grangemouth, what did you expect?

Driving the judiciary out of political and economic decisions must be a priority for a future government. (Yes, the judges are using laws passed by Parliament; yes, Parliament must scrap each and every one of those which have transferred decision making to them.)

The courts making essentially political decisions - as in the Next case & Cumbrian coal mine case - is a recipe for disaster. Unlike democratic politics there are no trade offs or democratic accountability. We have to unwind the changes that have encouraged them to do this.

Make her famous, folks!

Repeal the Town & Country Planning Act!! Essentially - the above. I suppose it's been amended a few times since 1947

I hate the NHS. The reason it is so incredibly bad is that it is modelled for the immediate post-war years, and for a functioning and homogeneous society. Britain 2024 is a very different country. But that doesn’t matter. The Darzi report will achieve nothing. Healthcare won’t

Absolutely... Where do the years go?

This is the kind of right wing retardation I'm talking about. All of these NGOs could be stopped overnight. They're not stopped because the political elites of Europe are liberal midwits who can't get their heads around the idea that NGOs could ever possibly be bad actors, and

Putin is publicly calling it a "war" with NATO, that's new. Per my piece, Putin's "redline" comes on the tail of many Kremlin "revelations" about RU MoD tac nuke doctrine and employment.

"The same political and military idiots who gave us the catastrophic Afghan defeat, which they still insist was a flawless act of massive genius, are managing nuclear escalation in Ukraine." substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/topse…

Repeat after me (live it, learn it, love it): Value of the object Theory of victory Hope is not a strategy The enemy always gets a vote substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/topse…

Unless proposals by government include all paid media platforms (including radio), any legislation preventing MPs TV work will just look like they're targeting Farage/Reform. There's no fundamental difference to allow one form of media but not another: it amounts to silencing

I woke up this morning feeling sad and then remembered I’d been dreaming about my grandparents. It was a realisation that the world of my childhood is now long gone, and that the wisdom of previous generations will soon be forgotten. But most of all it was quiet despair; a

The only news organisation that sent a journalist to cover this. The news organisation many so-called liberals have campaigned to have shut down.

What a condescending arse. Environmental case - would prefer it was imported from the other side of the world, where environmental standards are often lower regardless of shipping emissions. Business case - that’s for investors to determine, not some leftwing cranks. ‘False

Mr Farage pays an exceedingly large amount of tax...

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