Did some scuba diving with (among others) a South African chap who loved his job. Delivering luxury cars to buyers in Johannesburg. Always avoided buddying with him. Adrenaline seeking is not optimal… (View Post)

Private prosecutions are disliked by The System. I attended a community meeting where the police actually berated an org for doing private prosecutions. (View Post)

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)