This is a question asked by all foreigners, who look on in horror as we binge-drink our way through the week, stumbling through the streets in various states of inebriation. As though I were talking [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…]
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…]
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…]
I watched unloved Starmer’s self pitying tearful resignation speech outside Number Ten & was struck by one sentence in which he referred to Britain as ‘the Country I love’. I was dumbstruck. The reason he [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…]
In each of the 438 quangos described in Part 2, someone decides who sits on the boards, who chairs the committees, and who approves the contracts. Look closely at who those people are and a [more…]
Almost a third of all government spending, £391 billion a year, is not spent by government departments. It is spent by 438 separate publicly funded bodies that ministers cannot direct, Parliament cannot easily scrutinise, and voters [more…]
When a bank flags a transaction as suspicious, it is not usually because someone has confessed to a crime. It is because the numbers do not make sense. A property sells for three times its [more…]
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