Chris Dillow – always worth your time – casts a weary eye over a number of government policies and concludes:
What this shows, I think, is that New Labour’s claim to believe in technocratic, evidence-based policy is a sham. They are not technocrats at all, but either priggish moralists or cowardly panderers to mob prejudice.
Quite so. And as he says, we may need a revolution. Lord knows, however, where that might come from.
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