I mean some things I've benefitted from, like the NHS, are generally a wider good. Other things I've benefitted from are not a generally wider good. I prefer things and systems that help make things better for lots of people. Even if that means things that previously benefitted me to others detriment stop being things.
No panic in 2017. Things could only get better and the did. 2024 things can be exactly the same, but with worse austerity doesn't have the same ring to it
And one of the arts of government is judging what things should be uniform over what scale. I suspect that one of the reasons that the Westminster system is creaking is that it's trying to manage some things that really ought to be sorted locally and some things where deviating from international consistency is more…
Walk. You have these things called legs. You might have heard of them. They're rather odd things, but you seem rather obsessed with the small, stubby, dangly things that hangs between them, so start with those and work outwards.
GCHQ should be doing things like this as a wake-up call to MPs that they need to take their own security seriously and not to make things easy for people looking to blackmail them.
We don’t have enough of that sort of thing. Proper pastiche architecture, doing things properly not by halves. I agree it’s the sort of thing that one or two places like Blackpool would really benefit from. Trouble is there’d be a local conservation association campaigning to preserve the historic amusement arcades.