The prevalence of judicial reviews is a very modern phenomenon. It doesn’t have to be like this. (View Post)

It would be interesting to see if UK academe has suffered the same runaway administration costs that U.S. higher education has. Essentially, the cost of actual professors has stayed pretty much the s… (View Post)

WH Smith’s don’t exist in the U.S., and hence the magazine ecosystem is poor, considering the U.S. market is five or six times that of the UK. Same goes for bookshops. Even in New York there aren’t r… (View Post)

I have an operations capability, ostensibly efficiency-saving, but who - left unchecked - create superfluous process documentation and militate for additional hires. I keep them going because they do… (View Post)

Richard Murphy is the left wing Patrick Minford (he of “Economists for Brexit”). Both are total nutters, essentially the David Ickes of the economics profession. (View Post)