On juries. During WWII, due to a combination of spy craft, ULTRA and incompetence by the Germans, every single spy sent to Britain was caught. Once captured they were used as part of the “loop” maste… (View Post)

I recall much derision about an advert advocating IT training for ex-ballet people. Who finish a poorly paid career before 40, usually with non-trivial damage to their bodies. (View Post)

Indeed. Because the system is obviously trustable and several senior figures have said they trust judges more than juries. {Lord Denning has entered the chat and declared everyone guilty - in the pub… (View Post)

As pointed out by several actual courtroom participants, here, there is a huge amount of faffing about in courtrooms. In classic OR methodology, speed up all the non-expert stuff. For example, the sc… (View Post)

I remember Tebbit vs Brian Redhead Tebbit was on Radio 4. He started by asking why BR hadn’t asked him about the unemployment figures, just out {when unemployment was going up, BR had led with it, de… (View Post)