The Rule They Will Not Apply
The state already values land as what it is. It just stops at the farm gate.
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The Fence They Would Not Pay For
Twenty professionals on six-figure salaries put on branded t-shirts and paint a fence. A photographer attends. The charity thanks them warmly, because it would like to be remembered when the corporate giving budget is set. Nobody asks why it did not simply get the money.
The Court They Will Not Use
Everything has been tried. None of it has worked. Nobody has asked why.
The Price They Pay Themselves
There is a number the British state has decided is the right amount to put aside for a decent retirement. It is 28.97% of salary. We know this because the state pays it, every month, into the pensions of the people who work for it. There is a second
Who Was Paying for Mars?
Starlink's customers funded the frontier. Five weeks after the IPO, they got the bill.
Suppose We Win
The green transition could succeed completely and still fail.
Gordon Brown - The Deferred Bill
Gordon Brown and the confusion of accounting treatment with economic reality
TFL: Measured not managed
A discount rate moved, and Transport for London's wage bill appeared to fall by £120m while it was actually rising by £153m. Almost nothing in these accounts means what it is reported to mean.
TFL: The self-sufficiency illusion
Transport for London does not pay its own way. It has been permitted to say that it does, and the permission was granted by nobody in particular.
Marienfelde
Poland's border policy, and the door two million Poles walked through
The Two Negotiations of the NHS
How the NHS learned to be ruthless with its own staff and generous to everyone else
The Shibboleth Premium
Why the bulk annuity industry pays a fortune to avoid a fortnight of training