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- Eden Project founder Tim Smit in 'Heligan: The Complete Works' (Channel 4 Books).
Who couldn’t applaud George Osborne’s admirable idea that people in receipt of state handouts should do something in return for the money? I imagine he isn’t including any of the things that so many people in receipt of state handouts already do – they help out at school, for example, or do Granny’s shopping for […]
After eight minutes of automated messages and telephonic queuing this morning, a real person answered the phone at Cornwall Council. Yes, that’s right, the council to which I pay hundreds of pounds a month. Clearly, it doesn’t spend any of that on common courtesies like answering the phone by, for example, employing Cornish people to […]
It was brought to my attention last week – it’s brought to our attention every week – that state ownership of essential services is a bad thing because we tried it once and it didn’t work. Hmmm. Lots of things overseen by the state didn’t work once, but do now. Computers in schools. Brain surgery. […]