There's also the "customer service" role of the MP, which apparently takes up a lot of time now. MPs are expected to hold regular constituency surgeries, and to advocate on behalf of t… (View Post)

I agree that politicians have become infantilised, to the extent that they seem to have persuaded themselves that they are incapable of doing things. "We've tried nothing and we're all… (View Post)

I don't think it's about growing up online. Let's look at what happened to GDP/capita over this time: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison-project-database?tab=li… (View Post)

I think this view is a bit out-of-date. We stopped outsourcing massive projects 15 years ago, largely ending the gravy train for the big "systems integrators". The Government Digital Servic… (View Post)

A minor point, but since St. George died around 303 AD, and there were not any Turks in the area of his birth for another 700 years, it is extremely unlikely that he was Turkish. He was a Roman soldi… (View Post)