Like most utopians Cummings' diagnosis of the UK's problems was pretty good but his solutions to those problems turned out to be mostly awful. (View Post)

Oh wait, Burnham has done a reverse ferret on WASPI inside of 24 hours: https://x.com/LOS_Fisher/status/2065038235965825321 Someone has had a little word by the looks of things. (View Post)

The problem with Healey quitting over defence spending is that there’s no evidence that Burnham will be more willing to spend on the defence of the realm than Starmer was. Apparently Burnham is quite… (View Post)

This government is obsessed with the idea that AI will solve everything, when what’s actually needed is basic managerial competence. I guess that costs money though. (View Post)

You could definitely make a case that this issue is (like many other UK problems) downstream of the gutting of local authority budgets to pay for old age social care & SEND provision. If you’re j… (View Post)