And linked to that, it means that the elite has lost a lot of its sense of the long term. My Jenny-come-lately Cambridge College is over 150 years old. The British Army is 350 years old, depending on… (View Post)

Pretty sure I disagree. There's a hefty and enduring gap between what the government gets in taxes and what it spends. There are two honourable ways out of that. One is to accept that the state shoul… (View Post)

More about making Milton Keynes/Bedford/Peterborough into suburbs of London really. Move the very fast intercity trains to a new track and you can run a lot more fastish trains in their place. The sa… (View Post)

The checklist approach sounds bureaucratic, but it's proved pretty powerful in terms of stopping human error- see aviation. Does depend on what is in the checklist, of course. See also reducing the b… (View Post)

Wasn't the (insanely expensive) energy bailout largely driven by Moneysaving Martin Lewis? (Yes, something needed to be done urgently, especially for people at the bottom of the income scale. But mos… (View Post)