On the last two points - police regulate private security (ha!) and all the villages had already lost their police patrols. As to protection rackets - “Me and the lads have an offer. You pay protecti… (View Post)

Well, first you need to kill some Head Count. Think of them as a blood sacrifice on the altar of Process. (View Post)

This is the ultimate evolution of Process State thinking. People with no domain knowledge or skills create more and more regulations until doing anything legally and correctly becomes impossible. So … (View Post)

That was more about the RN not recognising that things had changed. Aircraft without observers etc were required for performance. And performance requirements meant that aircraft had to be much less … (View Post)

Limiting it to one appeal would be attacked as breaching human rights. The issue is a philosophy - that the ECHR is expandable and should expand to create a virtual constitution. @SeanT bangs on abou… (View Post)