If you fund it out of general taxation it will end up being salami-sliced away to nothing. Why spend tax revenue on the BBC when you could fund nurses instead? It's the only alternative that is … (View Post)

Duckett does top the list of Test openers with at least 1,000 runs ordered by strike rate, but he's only marginally ahead of Sehwag who was doing this two decades ago. (View Post)

You can't recognise a knight of the realm. How embarrassing. (View Post)

Until fairly recently NOAA were funded pretty badly, and the Met Office are generally quite happy with their hybrid approach. Having most of their government funding in the form of commercial-style c… (View Post)

On parsimonious business travel I think that is also part of the New Puritanism. Work should be suffering and unpleasant. If money is spent on providing a pleasant working environment, or making busi… (View Post)