Recent content by Yew

The standard one is to put a Civil Servant with minimal domain knowlege, and no experience managing IT projects in charge of a Complicated IT project; then wonder why the project goes over budget.

It'd be pretty remarkable if the Torah said anything specific about a religion that started around 1000 years after it was written!

There are already laws against littering though?

All those pledges that Sir Kier made and then has broken?

Even New Zealand, which first proposed this extreme and authoritarian policy, has since backend down. I fear that given the support on the Labour benches, we're in for the next parliament being one of continuation of broken Neoliberal economic policies, and an interventionist state trying to...

Who would have thought that bombing a population would cause them to support those who suggest fighting back?

More cost effective in the long run doesn't provide tax breaks to your donors in the short-run.

I know that the economy is pretty bad, but does Ben Bradley really need four jobs to make ends meet?

The expiry date of the document is clearly noted upon it, it is reasonable to expect that a passport be deemed valid until the date inscribed upon it by the issuing authority.

Perhaps we should go for "Remainiac"? For those hard-remainers that want to joinn Schengen and the Euro; I'n not sure they exist outside of Nigel Farrages wildest fantasies though!

Of course, not for any of the good reasons to be against voter ID, but because of an easily fixable administrative error.

Why do I get the feeling that the Daily Mail journalists aren't going through the tax affairs of Conservative politicians with such as fine-toothed comb?

I would imagine the intent is more for if they are lost, than to allow early acquisition.

There has never been a vote to leave the European Economic Area, as such there was no deomocratic mandate to leave it.

From what I remember, they were looking to build a new single decker platform, the Zefiro, but then the EU competition commission ruled that they needed to sell off the platform, as they had acquired Bombardier. So despite having Japanese name plates, the Zefiro is a very French train. I...