You can level up, but doling out government money to regions already far too dependent on the state is the worst way to do it. If it worked, after a century of regional aid, Northern Ireland and Nort… (View Post)

Without doing a whole treatise on this, it depends on the nature of competition. The number of competitors and market share are beloved by lawyers and the press because they are simple and verifiable… (View Post)

It's possible. But it's also possible that a more decentralised and less unionised system would be able to pay better nurses more, and worse ones less (or sack them without risking a nation… (View Post)

On topic, and with due deference to those who work on this every day, I'm not sure that our Maths education is as bad as the thread indicates, given where we are in the 2018 PISA rankings (13th … (View Post)

There was less computer crime and graffiti too. And fare-dodging on the trains was unhead of. (View Post)