Also, we have had successive governments apparently unable to distinguish investment which provides a real return, from that which does not. You rightly point at Manchester, IMO, as I suspect it's en… (View Post)

Sounds dangerous. (View Post)

I find it exceptionally useful, and there isn't really anything better for up to date news and general information. But it does require a ruthless determination to weed out the stuff designed to wind… (View Post)

Setting aside the poke at Francis, that is a classic. ...Crucial information, recorded on different systems by various authorities, was "lost" in handovers between staff, Mr Russell added..… (View Post)

The obvious corollary of that, though, is that if we're going to do things better, we have to do fewer things. (A very obvious, and probably easiest to fix* example of this is the MoD.) There simply … (View Post)