Yes. Brown privatised the profits but socialised the losses. Much of today’s nightmare of government finances can be traced back to the fcuked-up response to the 2008 crisis. (View Post)

That’s nuts, and you know that exactly the same scenario would have played out for every single other trade on the project. Thousands of people people each paid hundreds of pounds a day to do nothing… (View Post)

The implosion is pretty close in the US, and will likely happen there first. At the end of the day, I suggest that the most likely workable scenario is an agreement between university, student, and b… (View Post)

Can you ask patients “How do you wish us to communicate with you?” The cost of post and phone calls across the NHS must be astronomical, compared to having your system send out emails and text messag… (View Post)

That’s why they lost the last election. They’d turned into Blairites, owned by the civil service and with little conviction in anything they did. (View Post)