Admitting guilt is useful but not necessary and certainly shouldn't be made an aim of the system, which would inevitably put improper pressure on the police to secure 'confessions' and the like, or f… (View Post)

Because Genghis Khan and Tamerlane were well-known for their memos. Bureaucracy is value-neutral. Indeed, it's efficiency-neutral - you can have effective bureaucracies and hopeless ones. But on the … (View Post)

Spot on. Ditto Harrogate. (View Post)

2020 is dodgy stats given lockdown, the pandemic, furlough and so on - which disproportionately affected low-paid jobs. They would have been much better starting at 2019 as a baseline. (View Post)

The main difference between houses and other items is that houses are not bought outright whereas almost everything else is (though increasingly not cars, where there's a strong case to mainly use le… (View Post)