Furthermore, suppose something bad has happened. If it's actual fraud, go to the police. If it's incompetence, move on to finding how to unwind the contract to save the money. Either way, you don't d… (View Post)

It's not quite that. Even the dumbest elected politician will be smarter than the dumbest voter. And some of these people, JD Vance or Dom Cummings, say, are clearly bright and well-educated. I recko… (View Post)

Thinking about 2028/9, this matters. In a Presidential system, it's pretty easy to imagine Farage winning and becoming El Presidente. If all Farage had to do was find 400 Baldricks with nothing but a… (View Post)

Do what the rest of us wage slaves do. Either: 1 Politely pretend to listen, whilst turning the call into that "mwah mwah" noise the teacher made in the Charlie Brown TV cartoons and counti… (View Post)

But also... Humanity has got richer by specialising and co-operating to get big jobs done. That's a good thing. But it does mean that the traditional humane ways of managing organisations and communi… (View Post)