The World Motivation
Our membership of the E.U. muddied the waters of accountability, making it easy for U.K. elected politicians to pass the buck to Brussels, effectively denying the British people full democratic representation.
“Our membership of the E.U. muddied the waters of accountability, making it easy for U.K. elected politicians to pass the buck to Brussels, effectively denying the British people full democratic representation.”
Our membership of the E.U. muddied the waters of accountability, making it easy for U.K. elected politicians to pass the buck to Brussels, effectively denying the British people full democratic representation.
There are thousands of civil servants. In large part, they are brilliant. They work really hard.
I will always respect Theresa May for her assiduity and resilience.
My belief in an efficient, low-tax state was set early. I owe a lot of that to my mum. She was a Conservative councillor in Brent for 16 years.
Tolerance for difference and for robust debate is often more appropriate than restricting freedom.
One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.
Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
There is definitely a balance that I have to strike both in terms of supporting the Police Bureau - making sure they have the tools and the resources they need to do their jobs effectively. But I also have an important role to play when it comes to oversight and accountability.
Implicit bias - our subconscious associations of race - permeates everything that we do. And we must pursue systemic accountability to fix it.