quangos

Six Quangos You Never Voted For, Ranked by Damage

Ofgem announced the new price cap on 27 August last year, live on its website, no vote, no debate, no minister at a despatch box explaining themselves — and eleven million households found out what their winter would cost from a press release. The board that decided it is appointed, not

science funding

Nobody Voted to Switch Off Jodrell Bank

Twenty-eight jobs. Nearly three thousand researchers who use the facility. One date, 1 April 2028, when every scientific observation at Jodrell Bank Observatory stops, unless someone finds the money nobody at UK Research and Innovation felt was theirs to find. The sum in question is £2.8m a year, which