It doesn't work. Worse, Ministers do still get it in the neck, but it is the wrong Ministers, and usually long after the damage has been done. Take Ed Davey, for example. He got targeted when th… (View Post)

I and others are trying to encourage her to write a book which pulls together all the threads that are common to the major scandals with which we have become wearingly familiar - the PO, Infected Blo… (View Post)

Yes, and this formed a significant part of the correspondence which I cut out, partly for reasons of length but also because I don't want Mike getting sued. Nevertheless I can express a strictly… (View Post)

Thank you, Seleban. Very kind. The piece is about 95% Cyclefree. I top and tailed an email she sent me recently, but mostly it appears verbatim. Naturally I agree with everything she says here and am… (View Post)

Yes, it would. The causes of the scandal are many and various but no-one can dispute that the failureof the sole shareholder, the Government, to hold the organisation properly to account was a majorf… (View Post)