If you actually read what I said, I wasn't comparing like with like. El Salvador was clearly a society where law and order had broken down to a considerable extent - one can argue the whys and w… (View Post)

We were talking about "process" yesterday and one of the main areas is capital expenditure. Councils get capital money which they have to use in the financial year - "use" means s… (View Post)

Evening all :) I'm interested in a couple of barbed comments on public sector productivty which, we are told, is 5.7% lower than pre-pandemic. This was Jeremy Hunt from his speech to the Centre … (View Post)

Evening all :) I'm not sure I agree with all of @Malmesbury's header. The point about social workers needs clarification - the meticulous and necessary recording of conversations and meetin… (View Post)

Sometimes the leader becomes the personification and the focus of the anger rather than the Party. Major, for example, took the burden of the anger of the electorate willingly and did so in order to … (View Post)