They're not unaccountable because the government sets their remit and appoints their leaders. The advantage is to give them a set of instructions and then let them get on with it without a minis… (View Post)

Sure, but bringing the quango directly into the government department isn't necessarily going to fix that problem. And the issue is less whether these things are running perfectly, but how do yo… (View Post)

Current Sinn Fein regard the two parties that split from them (Fine Gael and Fianna Fail) as sell-outs, yes. Oddly, though, they deride them both as "civil war parties" when, of course, the… (View Post)

We've been here so many times with Trump making similar claims that I'm going to wait until Iran confirm a peace deal before believing it. Which is incredible. A theocratic dictatorship is … (View Post)

I'm going to be in London for three nights from tomorrow and fortunately the forecast for overnight temperatures has been dialled down a bit. (View Post)