The detail of most regulation is of no interest at all to the vast majority of voters. But the cumulative effects of bad regulation are of great political significance. But how many voters even link … (View Post)

The other week R3 also failed to make the remarkable young Korean virtuoso Lim Yunchan's* recording of Liszt's transcendental studies their top pick, going instead for Lazar Berman's m… (View Post)

That another rule covering heat pump heating systems. Air conditioning is also heat pumps, of course, but that regulation requires a separate set of hops to be jumped through for a cooling setup. (View Post)

I'm not saying they should. The point is that regulation isn't a big political issue, even when its effects are massive, and that contributes to the election of politicians who don't g… (View Post)

. I know. In that way, it's characteristic of the regs, which set out to achieve admirable objectives (eg safer buildings) but are so badly drafted that they just prevent an awful lot of buildin… (View Post)