The Pretence of Knowledge
The cooperation between politicians and scientists easily undermines science and promotes the pretence of knowledge.
The cooperation between politicians and scientists easily undermines science and promotes the pretence of knowledge.
Critics cry fowl at unhinged government priorities.
Analysts have warned that the directive, aimed at reducing the gender pay gap, may backfire.
British bureaucracy has added more workers in the past seven years than the entire regular British Army.
Two former heads of Germany’s foreign intelligence wing BND warn that the agency was facing bureaucratic collapse.
The directive is likely to come into effect before next year’s EU elections and facilitate decoupling from regimes such as China on human rights grounds.
The central and regional administrations in Spain are blaming each other for the delays.
The Italian government faces the challenge of restructuring the administrative machinery of the state and its entrenched managers inherited from previous administrations who are a historical remnant of political parties’ compromises.
So long as the Bank of England is entrusted with as much power as it has assumed for itself—it matters little whether the prime minister is Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, or even Margaret Thatcher.
The health ministry originally feared as many as 10 million doses would have to be thrown out, until it emerged that the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine can be stored for longer than initially thought, downgrading the estimated waste to 3 million doses.