I remember the Yes Minister quote about merging departments leading to efficiencies though - about how you just keep all the existing staff and add a new layer of coordinating staff on top. Certainly… (View Post)

This morning I had the surreal experience of an hour long call about the impact of the drought with some colleagues and clients while looking out of my window at the pouring rain outside. (View Post)

Not at providing healthcare: if you look at Exhibit 2, on Health Care Outcomes, we are 10/11, with only the indefensible American system worse. We rank 1 on Equity, which means we get equally crap he… (View Post)

In theory, maybe. But I've often thought that a libertarian government is an oxymoron, and has been for a century or more. Government always comes under irresistible pressure to "do somethi… (View Post)

So rather like Mrs Thatcher, then. (View Post)