If you show the slightest evidence of being conciliatory, you will be ignored. Then people wonder why every pressure group is absolutist. (View Post)

There is a deeper issue, here. A structural one. The “facilities designed by people who do not understand disability, or without thinking about it” This pattern repeats - something designed and creat… (View Post)

The big difference with the railways (and canals) was that the horse trading happened before the parliamentary bills. Once that was done, the engineers ran the projects. (View Post)

South Korea is a crowded place, with a high level of development, modern safety standards. They can build infrastructure better, faster and cheaper. The issue is more, I think, to do with a culture o… (View Post)

What happens is that managers with no domain knowledge each add a “policy initiative” that has their personal chop on it. These policies may be ludicrous and/or impossibly expensive. See the social e… (View Post)