One of Parkinson's subsiduary laws is also relevant here, though. Paraphrasing, whoever is at the top needs to (somehow) be got to retire before they are really ready to go. Not because of the q… (View Post)

Collectively, that sounds about right. Half the country is saving/accumulating cash too much and putting it where it isn't useful. The other half can't save a penny- often because of the re… (View Post)

There are schools that need a reset, and not all LEAs are good at resetting them. (I was governor at one for a while, and it was pretty clear that it would never get high enough up the LEA "To D… (View Post)

For all some people moan about national pay scales, I'm pretty confident that the alternative (getting everyone to name their price) would work out worse for the taxpayer. Monopsony is a pertty … (View Post)

Both those times, the centripetal forces on the 2.5 party system won out. There is less sign of that happening this time, which says something (probably quite bad) about us as a nation. We're a … (View Post)