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)

Yup - see Bomber Command. Which *nearly * became the weapon it was supposed to be. If Barnes Wallis had actually gone to America to learn how pressure cabins for aircraft could be built - rather than… (View Post)

Which was the whole point. Instead of the politicians and the ghastly Head Count who vote for them, Top Judges in an Ivory Tower would rule. Plato’s Philosopher Kings made manifest. “Keep the coinage… (View Post)