Breakfast and childcare? The one Things One and Two went to back in the day is now £5.50 per morning. (View Post)

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 … (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 … (View Post)