This is one of the better critiques of the COVID enquiry that I have read. https://jameswphillips.substack.com/p/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-functional .. During COVID, the bureaucracy performed as… (View Post)

Imagine if, rather than (eg) spending £700m on the Hinckley fish disco, we spent £70m on restoring chalk streams. The environmental benefits could be immeasurably greater for a fraction of what it cu… (View Post)

From the Pentagon service manual; the section titled "Clearly illegal orders to commit lawful war violations": "For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illega… (View Post)

You've forgotten their digging trenches round Chernobyl, at the beginning of this invasion, then ? (View Post)

Just to be clear, this is the best thing Starmer has done as PM, by a long way. It should be welcomed; he should be praised for it: and watched like a hawk to make sure he delivers. (View Post)