The same reason documentary producers put on way too much background music way too loud - it fills what they think are long, uncomfortable silent periods. It never seems to occur to them that a custo… (View Post)
How anybody can say that, when you have fiascos like HS2 or God knows how many IT projects, is beyond me. Government is great at overpriced, misspecified investment disasters and zombie white elephan… (View Post)
Somebody once said that Singapore is a democracy that feels like an enlightened despotism while (pre-1997) Hong Kong was an enlightened despotism that felt like a democracy. Plenty of truth in that, … (View Post)
I see the Russian ambassador has speculated, without evidence, that we helped the Ukrainians with their attacks at the weekend. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/05/russia-uk-ambassador-… (View Post)