Thanks Nick. A useful header. I suggest that your analysis is missing a crucial point. The EU is suggesting that, in the event of their believing there to be a divergence, they get to apply penalties… (View Post)

I find that very disturbing and not British. Something is going very wrong with our policing. (View Post)

Spot on. My father was a senior civil servant. He has never told me how he votes. He lived by the principle that he advised but ministers decided. He is horrified by the leak culture, believing that … (View Post)

Could it be that managers in business are shown to be more competent that managers in the Civil Service? My father was a senior civil servant. His view is that the current lot are very poor by histor… (View Post)

Appointing people you like rarely ends well. The fact that in neither appointment was there an open process is rank stupidity in my view. It doesn't disprove my father's argument, just that the curre… (View Post)