Yeah. We seem to be terrible at just getting on and building stuff and surely part of the problem must be that not only do we take forever to decide to do something (spending a ton on studies and pre… (View Post)

...whereas today the cabinet couldn't run a bath... (View Post)

Then for God's sake don't reproduce the link here so other people can click on it! Web pages which make browsers crash are bad news, because it often means the web page is trying to exploit… (View Post)

Mmm. Our system gives quite a lot of power to an elected government during its term, which means there's a lot of leeway for it to take quite sharp turns in overall policy direction. (Compare th… (View Post)

Why are DB pensions inherently unaffordable when DC are not? What you actually mean is "massively cut their pensions", which is going to be equally (un)popular regardless. (To my mind, the … (View Post)