Just watched Vance's speech to the Munich security conference today. It is well worth a listen, whatever your politics. He makes an excellent challenge to Europe. I believe strongly that we should li… (View Post)

I think at some point you need to take a breath and accept that some problems are sticky and not amenable to easy solutions. Choice within education is very much one of those areas. The sunk costs in… (View Post)

Agreed on the lack of 'customer' focus in the public sector atm, and to defend other bits of what you're saying, I suspect unions would throw their toys out the pram at such a radical change, so they… (View Post)

Yes but I'm not sure austerity actually drove productivity. I think it just reduced outputs (but in a way that was hidden for a decade or so, and that we are now struggling to cope with). (View Post)

Perhaps. Though there were plenty within the southern states that opposed slavery (and some within the northern states that still wanted it). Still, I take your point that the dividing line is less c… (View Post)