By: Galahad Threepwood

Galahad Threepwood
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:32:23 +0000

None of this is any surprise to those who remember Tony I’m a Pretty Straight Sorta Guy Bliar and his master puppeteer Alistair Dodgy Dossier Campbell.

But the most depressing thing in the article is the discovery (for me) that we have a Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Given that the Department for Education presides over epic levels of functional illiteracy and innumeracy and the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform presides over the smoking ruins of our industry and the corpses of SMEs strangled by miles of red tape, I fear we are doomed.