Crashing through the undergrowth, Tommy gun blazing, Jason Arday claimed yet another bar for his Victoria Cross as the enemy fell like leaves before him. Or rather he didn’t, as, unlike the ‘real’ Walter Mitty [more…]
Four men are in custody. £44 million is missing. And the woman who oversaw it all just got promoted to Energy Secretary. This is not politics. This is not incompetence. This is institutional decay wearing [more…]
Our first Prime Minister, or First Lord of the Treasury, was Robert Walpole in the earlyish 1700s. His motto was “every man has his price and I know it bar a few” and some of [more…]
By this point the pattern is visible. The remaining question is why it is allowed to continue. The answer is not that everyone inside the system is secretly coordinating. It is simpler than that. The [more…]
Ian Robert Maxwell (NHRN) was born 1923 in Czechoslovakia as Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch. His birthplace is now Solotvyno in Ukraine. I believe it was Private Eye who christened him Cap’n Bob presumably based [more…]
HS2 is one project. What happens everywhere else, across the hundreds of councils and public bodies that spend the rest of the £1.23 trillion, is in many ways worse. In the financial year 2022–23, 467 [more…]
Dan Norris was the MP for Wansdyke from 1997 to 2010. In 2021 he was elected as Mayor of the West of England until his arrest in April 2025. In the 2024 GE he defeated [more…]
In July 2017, four joint ventures were awarded HS2 civil contracts worth a combined £6.6 billion. The original structure was a target-cost contract with a pain/gain share, meaning that if costs overran, the contractor would [more…]
The revolving door describes one route through the system. There is another. Between 2013 and 2023, 68 of the 284 peers nominated by party leaders were political donors, giving a combined £58 million. Fifteen of sixteen [more…]
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