Bud from Diamond Age has reached the end of the pier.... (View Post)

It is true that remuneration in the public sector has increased - at the high levels. Once, a few senior Civil Servants were paid well. Now we have a whole raft of people, often "consultants&quo… (View Post)

Probably Meloni. Some actual analysis here - https://www.epc.eu/publication/after-orban-why-peter-magyar-would-not-be-an-easy-partner-for-the-eu/ (View Post)

For those that don’t know, Peru just had a presidential election. Looks like Keiko Fujimori (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_Fujimori) has won (View Post)

A part of it is “professionalisation” The British Museum doesn’t have a catalogue of everything in the basement. So stuff was stolen without being noticed. In fact most museums and collections around… (View Post)