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I'm as active in local politics as I can be without compromising my professional relationships, and I'm an active contributor to central government policy forums, both on my own account as a technical expert in a niche field, and on behalf of Industry and professional bodies. I don't get...

I deal with central government and local authority procurement on a semi-regular basis... I'm consistently shocked by how often they're willing to buy a service with markup, which they could deliver substantially cheaper in-house if they were willing to commit, sometimes even when they already...

'Fraid not... Process Engineering with Economics. I've done work in the Biotech/Pharma sector but it's probably not for me, I'm more of a "great big things" guy!

The evidence suggests that homeless people don't want to deal with (and/or have previous experience of failing at dealing with) the bureaucratic hoops required to get housed. The success of housing first strongly suggests that quite literally just giving people a place to live no strings...

Why should a public good (being safely housed) be an investment vehicle for someone to make money at low risk and low rates of taxation, whilst not contributing anything significant back into the economy? If someone needs a large house, but can't afford it (say a blended family where...

I would agree that the rental market is not fundimentally bad, but I'm also firmly of the opinion that it is not functioning well at the moment. A part of that can in turn be tied back to financial deregulation, both in lending markets making buy-to-let a much more widespread practice, but also...

I wasn't aiming to be ageist so much as anti-hypocracy when I posted. Whilst I meet a lot of people in your boat (older, but can see very clearly the issues or directly impacted by them) in my own local area... However on the internet and especially when I travel further afield for work, I do...

Whilst I'm not entirely convinced this would hold for a number of more deprived regions in the UK, even if it shows in UK aggregate figures it misses a bigger factor: Both rents and mortgage deposit requirements have strongly outpaced salary growth (considering my parents bought with a 0%...

Interesting FT article and poll on this here: Clickity Click The thrust seems to be that FT readers seem to come out slightly in favour of wealth taxes... Which seems incongruous at first glance as they're likely to be disproportionately effected, but the likely explanation is that being more...

This is a big part of the economic arguments in general. We've re-shaped our economy in such a way that there are far fewer secure & stable non-professional careers available. Because men in predominantly working class areas tended to occupy those jobs, they've been disproportionately hit by...

I've seen a lot of people who are anti-lockdown for purely ideological reasons (including a few Tory MP's who are getting on a bit) rather hypocritically reach for the "young people" argument when it suits their purposes. Whilst I can argue with you at length on othere issues, I would tend...

I suppose there's at least two (I'd argue three) generations of young people at the moment with fairly different viewpoints... From the people I meet around my own age and younger I've formed the following meaningful characterisations sweeping generalisations: Those too young to have...

Edit: My point in making this post was mainly to highlight the hypocrisy of many people advocating against the current lockdown because of the "Young People". As part of that, I have listed below the myriad complex reasons that for the first time in hundreds of years, people aged under 39...

Would you believe it, once upon a time I actually ran PCR sample preparation techniques with my own two hands, so I am quite familiar with the techniques. Moreover after years now working in the chemical sciences, I'm intimately familiar with the design of analytical protocols too, and am not...

I presume that you are unfamiliar with the story of Mary "Typhoid Mary" Malkin who was eventually identified as an asymptomatic carrier then forcibly quarantined after causing hundreds of people to contract Typhus and 53 directly attributable deaths. That story proves that the identification of...

That's genuinely one of the most ridiculous things I've heard on this topic to date. By your logic if I'm about to get hit by a bus, I can close my eyes and the situation will magically resolve itself with me unharmed.

G. L. O. R. I. A. Gloria! I'm going to have to listen to the whole of Land now just to get a suitable Patti Smit fix, I hope you're pleased with yourself.

If he's sufficiently determined making a custom drill bushing out of scrap steel would mitigate the risk of snapping... Although I'd probably just take the chance and center drill it then run the drill bit fast, whilst feeding with consistent pressure.

Depending on your political persuasion: Nye Bevan or Margaret Thatcher would be the obvious suggestions. However, I think Blair, Brown and Cameron would all have been significantly more effective than Boris has been, that's not to say they would have handled it well, but less badly.

It is as you correctly identified, not that simple: In principle the EU states were free to act individually to approve and order the vaccine faster than the central EU bodies were doing) However because they normally use a centralised regulatory approval body for medicines, the individual...