So the next challenge is to find them again in December. Good luck with that!

'The good old days'

A clear and unambiguous choice.

Ross Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety...

(One for the systems/cybernetics nerds 🙂)

What about nuts?

A seemingly never-ending mission to bring down their average IQ.

We had to make our own entertainment in those days...

So ours eyes didn't deceive us after all.

Agreed. I made what I think is a related point earlier...

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Were they though? Unfounded?

Thankfully I dumped my subscription so I won't be tempted to read this (and in any case I prefer to get my science from other sources.)

I think this new report 'Policy Priorities to Support
Relational Public Services' provides a clear case study as to why central government needs to re-orient towards an 'enabling state' model and use its powers to convene regulators.

#MMUPERU

mmuperu.co.uk/wp-content/u...

My reading is that the government needs to use the tools it has (or give itself additional tools) to actively manage the 'regulatory state', otherwise a more right-wing populist government might just sweep regulations out of the way (along with the protections they were implemented to provide.)