I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
I enjoyed “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right” by Atul Gawande. It puts forward a simple idea to avoid mistakes. Use a checklist to work through the action steps you need to take. It is used by pilots. Gawande wants doctors to use it to reduce accidents in surgery. I think political campaigners … Read more
This is a follow update of my review of the work of the Environment Committee’s scrutinising of delegated legislation in 2015. You can find that piece here. Method I have reviewed the agenda of each meeting of the Environment Committee in 2016. For each challenge to a delegated legislative proposal, I have tracked the … Read more
Why do you want to meet with Roger Helmer MEP? I could never understand why clients wanted to meet Roger Helmer MEP when he sat as a Conservative MEP.He seemed to hit the sweet spot for many industrialists. He saw the world through their eyes, he reflected their prejudices, he even believes climate change is … Read more
What if there was a way as way to nearly guarantee that the European Commission proposed a law you wanted. If the odds of that proposed being tabled was around 95%. And, as you’ll know, once the Commission have tabled the draft law, it has even higher odds of being adopted. The Daily Mail would … Read more