3 articles
• via BBC News
87% of Welsh voters support pollution action that institutions claim to be taking, yet waterways continue failing. The gap between public will, official process, and actual outcomes reveals how UK governance produces non-functioning results through functioning bureaucracy.
• via Bloomberg UK
London's disorder is not only a failure of governance but also deliberate policy choice by Britain's institutional classes to redefine normalcy downward. From rampant fare evasion to the normalization of drug dealing, the managed decline of public order serves powerful interests while leaving citizens to bear the costs.
• via The Guardian
On a Friday afternoon in Westminster, 605 MPs decided the state should help terminally ill citizens die. What they didn't decide—because they couldn't—was how, when, or who would pay for it. This gap between legislative ambition and implementation reality reveals everything about how modern Britain actually functions.