Isn't one of the problems today that more people are entering higher levels of management of both public services and private companies without actually having spent much, or even any, time actu… (View Post)

Wasn't the last Lord Carrington? (View Post)

The best description I have seen recently of this new elite (which is simply a reformation of the old elite to all intents and purposes) came from the Bishop of Liverpool in his Hillsborough report a… (View Post)

Not just the GLC. She centralised powers away from local Government right across the country (View Post)

We did it to ourselves because those who rightly decry the Nanny State principle failed to notice they were enacting exactly that. Thatcher, for all that she did a lot of good things, had a complete … (View Post)