Douglas Murray Douglas Murray

How to get nothing done

issue 07 January 2023

I sometimes wonder whether our government makes any decisions at all. In fact I’m trying to think of any area of public policy that is not the subject of a review, commission, inquiry or similar. The most charitable explanation for this trend is that it worsened in the coalition years.

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