The Victorians managed to enforce the Faxtory Acts. Because they used inspectors who were given the power to inspect. And agencies behind them, who would prosecute. The current UK approach to standar… (View Post)

The sensible answer to Reform would be to develop policies to deal with the problems that are not Reform “solutions”. Starmer has demonstrated that cosplaying Reform doesn’t work. For example, a Labo… (View Post)

The actual polling says that Starmer started with a fair amount of good will from the public. But worked hard at losing that. (View Post)

The state is like fire - a powerful servant. A terrible master. Consider the combination of “the incompetent, sloppy, arrogant, careless and complacent” and a pinch of malice - it didn’t take much to… (View Post)

Aside from finding them round the world (quite a few exported), Ukraine was/is the builder of jet engines for “Russian” cruise missiles, pre-war… (View Post)