A part of the problem is that politicians and the permanent apparatus of the state have given up on real cost saving and increasing productivity. Which isn’t about “slashing budgets” or “firing all t… (View Post)

If you don’t announce details, is that said racist dickheads get to fill in their own bullshit. The art of news management, in a democracy, is getting in first with something approximating to truth. … (View Post)

It's because military spending is used as industrial welfare. A few years back, a group of US Navy Officers specified the follow on missile design to Trident II to be pretty "Same again, bu… (View Post)

They are very densely layered - the early ones. Later, he kept writing the same thing. A trick that he over used is that the more important an event, the fewer words it gets. In one the last books, a… (View Post)

One change I’ve noticed over my adult life, is that debate has changed from “Can we afford this?” to goal based “We must do x, y and z”. This has broken local government finance. As a start. (View Post)