Yes, the democratising effect was the significant influence. If you wanted to form a band, you needed three chords, not a dry ice machine. See below on the disdain for Phil Collins' Genesis! (View Post)

Five candidates each getting more than 10% of the vote shows an electoral system that is broken. In the last Council elections in May there were two seats (in Cornwall and Buckinghamshire) where SIX … (View Post)

I worked for a CEO who resolutely, as a matter of policy, refused to scrutinise expense claims. Whenever he wanted to cut costs (occasionally) or had an animus against someone (frequently) he would r… (View Post)

Indeed. He was almost approaching the subject in the style of an epidemiologist, observing patterns of medical phenomena and then setting out to analyse why they occur. (View Post)

I have them all on my shelves, and must go and look at them again - thanks for the prompt! (Not one of his political ones, but I reckon his "Dr Wortle's School" is one of the best shor… (View Post)