The pardon power is important but given the abuse it has suffered it cannot be vested in a single person. There needs to be a Constitutional amendment to shift this elsewhere - though exactly where is unclear to me. SCOTUS is clearly a bad choice.

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A great read. You should talk about what is on your Substack more often!

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Suppose it depends a lot on what league tables are measuring, but by their nature they are competitive rather than a cooperative or neutral information space. Any system with metrics needs to choose them very carefully because they will end up being the only things that are focused on.

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I came to a similar conclusion through the lens of telecoms infrastructure: learnwhatyoulive.substack.com/p/the-hows-o... And actually I think this holds *even if* you believe that the current system isn't working well. It's still important enough to be very careful what you mess with.

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Welfare and LA systems are deeply broken. NEETs are a consequence of decisions made by Rachel Reeves to make it more expensive to employ young people. Fair play the economy is now growing (hallelujah), and there are good arguments for what she did, but it had trade offs.

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