January 14, 2005

Paul Krugman has an interesting example for Americans concerned about their social security system: Britain. And we’re the “How not to do it” section. It’s good reading – sometimes the best view on your own problems comes from watching other people’s. The UK has basically chosen a sort of negative social partnership, after all: government,…

On the one hand, we have the announcement that the FBI has scrapped its huge new computer system because it’s already obsolete (as well as late and overbudget) and doesn’t provide the features they want. This comes, let’s not forget, a day after BA Flight 175 was turned back mid-Atlantic on the basis of one…