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This in response to a post on Vinay Gupta’s blog. Vinay, I think that you’ve missed a fundamental point here. In both the UK and the USA, there is a sense in which these ‘supreme councils’ for the environment already exist – the Environmental Protection Agency and the Environment Agency in particular,and a handful of other quangos . . . → Read More: Response to Vinay Gupta’s musings about an environmental supreme court The UK is currently in the grip of a ‘deficit crisis’. It is told that if it does not decrease public spending, then its economy will falter and, worst of all, it might have its credit rating reduced. These conclusions, promulgated by a Conservative Government that some might suspect of having an ulterior interest in downsizing . . . → Read More: The inconsistent tyranny of numbers The history of Britain’s quangos is a vexed one. They exist in a space where independence and unaccountability overlap – designed to work at ‘arm’s length’ from ministerial influence, depending on your perspective they can be regarded as released from political interference or as removed from democratic accountability. It is an open secret that, as with any . . . → Read More: Independently illegitimate? |
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