Like many bureaucracies, [the WHO] wants to expand its authority despite failing in its core responsibilities
the invention of the book conspicuously failed to abolish the academic lecture
you need one strong person at the top with a vision, a handful of brilliant people working in a tight team, and that’s it
Many civil servants begin their adult lives with dreams of authorship
if one wanted to start means-testing, even for billionaires, then one would have to set up a bureaucracy to start means-testing again
there is nothing so permanent as a temporary migration programme