To anyone who likes to read my blog or subscribes to the feed (yes, I’m talking to you): I’ve decided to move my blog.
My new weblog home is now here: glennhead.blogspot.com
I’ve moved because it’s cheaper to have a site hosted for you by Blogger than to pay to have your site hosted on UK2.net! Simple economics.
So any new stuff will appear there. Why not go there now and enjoy the delights of my brain’s effusions?
Stupid
Parts of the system of government in Britain are stupid. There, I’ve said it. In particular the system for appointing ministers and their aides. Roles appear to get offered around like candy.
This is how it doesn’t work.
A minister can be a “minister for education” one week, and a “minister for employment” the next week (as happened with my former colleague Jim Knight). Essentially, the minister jumps between entire sectors on the whim of the PM. The problem with this method of bandying out jobs is that ministers become jacks of all trades but masters of none.
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