2024-07-29
The Covid Enquiry exemplifies the obdurate insistence by government that the government is always right and even when it is wrong it will "learn the lessons".
Except that even on the rare occasions that it does actually identify the correct lessons, it doesn't learn from them.
Martin Livermore for the GWPF reviews the history of lesson avoidance and suggests that fostering competition for the achievement of "broad top level goals" would be a better approach.
But who is to say the such "broad top level goals" would be the correct, even the most useful goals?
Or that the the government's invariable willingness to subsidise its own ideas (to "get them off the ground") would always turn any provider's attention away from making a profit by serving the customer, and towards maximising the amount of subsidy to be harvested from a willing paymaster?
What would be your top-level goals?
