Who will select and train the technocrats?

Philip Wood and John Airs take issue with Norman Strauss’s proposal for a ‘new constitutional specification and pluralist project team’. I’m all for massive constitutional change with considerable devolution of power and fiscal responsibility to the lowest, local, functional level: allied to federalism and proportional representation to sweep away our lousy “elective dictatorship”. But Norman Strauss’s wordy proposal for a kind of supreme technocratic in