BBC Radio 4′s Analysis programme – and the podcast – are essential listening for anyone with even the slightest wonkish tendencies.
Just after posting on ‘cognitive polyphasia‘ a few days ago, I listened to this programme from their archive about the problems that devolution is creating for parties that were established as ‘national’ parties. One of the talking heads on the programme – Linda Colley - suggested that few people in Westminster really thought through the consequences of creating a Scottish Parliament.
Well, it’s there now. And it’s forcing politicians to modify their reliance upon monolithic one-size-fits-all policies.
Perhaps more powers should be devolved in different ways without much thought?
