The purpose of processes and policies and law in government is not to make things better, but to stop things being even worse

5th May 2026 The real reason we need rules and procedures in public administration * It is a paradox that in the weeks and days before an election people tend to become less interested in law and policy. The focus instead turns to politics and personalities, and the soap opera of who is up and who is down, and who is in and who is out. And in the days after the elections, those who could not predict the outcome will confidently assert that the result proved them right all along. * This is not really a politics blog, and it has no party-partisan preference. Indeed, the general view of the blog is that governments tend to be illiberal, regardless of which politicians take power, and that the politicians who affect to be liberal in opposition tend not to carry that liberalism over into office. As the eminent jurists the Bonzo Dog Band aver, it can seem that no matter who you vote for the government always gets in. * But. We have in popular opposition not only those parading their…