Enforced, and unappealable petty bureaucracy was also a feature of life (and a more general one) in the Soviet Union. Particularly postwar. (View Post)

He was probably discarded much too soon, at only 32, think ? Warne's emergence was rather a lot to do with that. The Judge has gone to meet a greater judge of form than any of us. RIP (View Post)

That is interesting. And suggests that part of the solution, in particular cases, can be better policing of entitlement. (View Post)

I was in the shower at the time, so missed some of the detail, but that was very much the kind of thing he was talking about. it doesn't happen without sufficient resources to create the space t… (View Post)

He's the new leader of the BMA. Tried and failed to get selected as a Labour candidate under Corbyn. (View Post)