During my government days, I remember once being told by an Ofgem employee who was shocked at the overstaffing that the German energy regulator had visited and "they couldn't understand wha… (View Post)

She and Geoffrey Howe also denied them the right after Tiananmen. It was one of her few mistakes, alongside banning Sinn Fein from giving interviews, signing the Single European Act, joining the ERM … (View Post)

For decades our governments have been captured by the housebuilding industry. I agree that we need a revolution in thinking here more than virtually any other area of public policy. The trouble with … (View Post)

FPT ... and Hong Kongers really are the best immigrants. Already exposed to English culture, definitely political refugees not economic migrants, well educated and enterprising. They are significantl… (View Post)

It's not surprising at all. Badly-thought through social interventions that backfire and damage those they are designed to help while causing lots of unintended side effects aren't so much … (View Post)