Have you ever encountered the DfE? (View Post)

I am utterly convinced that Liz Truss would make a better president than Boluarte. Even among the annals of Peruvian politics - which specialises in the corruptly incompetent - Dina is considered som… (View Post)

That, I think, is a part of it. It’s not just in government of course. I saw exactly this kind of stuff at CitiGroup, before 2008. The fix there was the post crash shakeout of the useless. Friends wh… (View Post)

Which is why Poundbry and its siblings happened. (View Post)

Which goes back to how the Victorians managed it. Build the layout of a suburb. Trains, gas, water, roads, even pubs built. Then sell plots, half a road at a time, to *different* developers. (View Post)