Not so much woke as following process without belief or understanding of outcomes. Chief Constable Ronald Savage OBE DipSHit has done all the course and got all the awards, but strangely… (View Post)

I propose the word “Anankean” ( ἀνάγκη ) for “horrible but inevitable” (View Post)

The visits are cursory. Hence accounts of insulation missing on all the houses but the one inspected. Or concrete pours that fail strength criteria. For lack of testing. (View Post)

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)