Posts Tagged waste
Sizes of bottles, lengths of bus journeys
Posted by Nick Cowen in European Union on 26/03/2008
The EU: is there anything it cannot regulate? As Cato alerts us, apparently not. This week a wine business faces costs of £30,000 to comply with one of latest petty regulations while a bus route has to be artificially cut in three in order to comply with another, pointlessly wasting passenger time.
No jobs? Let them have prizes!
Posted by Nick Cowen in Health on 07/03/2007
The NHS remains in crisis. More catastrophes barely make an impression on the British public. They no longer seem to make a difference: the NHS limps on with the efforts of the doctors and nurses that still treat medicine as a vocation. Some targets are hit, others are missed, and amid the crushing burden of admin and the monthly crop of scandals, hospitals and surgeries force through some limited health provision.