It’s accretion. Over time, regulation and laws build up. The fix is always more. This creates a constituency of regulators whose job is to believe in more and more paperwork. This in turn provides bo… (View Post)

What I believe is that we need *more effective regulation*. Building laws and regulations are, in some areas, less effective than Victorian law. Because we combine orders of magnitude more paperwork … (View Post)

The bases in question are large and fixed. You can see them from space. Literally. But the Russians are pretty nearly out of the space recon business. Their program has collapsed. Thos will be from c… (View Post)

A reminder that the “experts” quote was after Gove met an alleged expert in education in his department. Who demanded a large pile of money to be spent on something the expert couldn’t define. And co… (View Post)

The real problem is that politicians want plausible deniability for the decisions they take. What do you think would have happened if Robbins had done the full deep dive and presented the result to S… (View Post)