GMonk
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WILD TAKEDOWN: British Police arrest a terrorist who stabbed two Jews in the Golders Green neighborhood of London. One victim is in serious condition.
🔴 An Iran-linked militant group has claimed responsibility for the Golders Green stabbings Follow more live updates here: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/2…
The Government is waking up to the undersea cable threat after a damning report by joint committee on the National Security Strategy in September found that Ministers were “too timid” in defending Britain’s undersea cables, reports @Telegraph @RoyalNavy #selection-3681.85-3681.92" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">archive.is/2026.04.21-055…
The stats here are kind of remarkable. BART's new fare gates have led to a 1,000-hour decline in clean up time; 41% drop in crime; and $10 million increase in projected revenue. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…
Since I left the civil service (and became a random tweeter) I’ve often thought about this. The sad truth is that Whitehall actively disincentivises the development of deep subject matter expertise in policy. It’s simply not considered good, or even ‘appropriate’, to do the hard work of working out how all these Byzantine policies fit together to create the shambles of British energy pricing. It’s the sum of work by maybe a dozen different teams, who each spend c50% of their time arguing over the wording of press releases and PowerPoint decks. If you were to sit down and try and work it through, and come up with new ideas like Ben has, then often that would be seen as being uncollegiate or what one SCS I knew called ‘solutionising’ (ie trying to solve problems which it wasn’t your job to solve).
