The election is over and we all know Labour has won with a massive majority. New ministers have been appointed to the Department of Energy and Net Zero (DESNZ) and the hard job of Government has begun.
Labour has appointed six ministers to DESNZ. However, analysis of their background and experience (see below) reveals two with PPE degrees, one with a degree in history, another with a degree in political studies and one with a degree in history and politics. There’s also one minister gaining a degree in Russian studies before studying law. Not one of them has a background in science, engineering or maths. Almost all of them have worked in the public sector for their whole lives, so between them, there is precious little experience of the commercial world and no experience of the energy sector. Ed Miliband and Miatta Fahnbulleh have qualifications in economics, but the latter describes herself as a “heterodox economist” and she has advocated “flooding the market with cheaper renewables” and introducing “free basic energy”. It can only be ‘heterodox economists’ who think more expensive, intermittent renewables are cheap and think energy is free.
There are three spads listed for Ed Miliband. Jonty Leibowitz studied history at Cambridge. Tobias Garnett studied law at City and then went to study at the Harvard Kennedy School where his thesis was entitled ‘A Just Transition to a Fairer Economy: Labour’s plan for a Green Industrial Revolution.’ Eleanor Salter is the final spad, shared with DEFRA, and it is unclear what her degree subject was but she writes for the Guardian and apparently she is particularly focused on “integrating nature into the climate offer”. No evidence of STEM backgrounds amongst the spads either.
You might think this does not matter, because ministers simply oversee the department and it is civil servants that really run the show. There are seven senior civil servants listed on the DESNZ website. But when you look at their background a similar picture emerges (see below). There are degrees in modern history, geography and modern languages, but precious little evidence of a STEM background anywhere. Only the Chief Scientific Advisor has any sort of science background and that is in chemistry, with a special focus on astrochemistry. Furthermore, there is no evidence that the senior civil servants have any significant experience outside the public sector. There is no evidence of experience in proper commercial businesses in any sector, let alone energy.
The rot does not stop in DESNZ. The department might turn to advisors like the National Grid Electricity System Operator, who have recently published their future energy pathways. Their Strategy and Policy Director, Claire Dykta, oversaw the work and wrote the foreword to the new document. Claire describes herself as a “leading influencer in the energy industry”, as though she was running a TikTok channel. Claire graduated from Aston with a degree in management, business and law, so no evidence of a STEM background either.
DESNZ ministers might look to the Climate Change Committee for advice or instructions. The CCC is currently without a chairman and CEO, but former chairman Lord Deben has a degree in history and former CEO Chris Stark studied finance and law. Despite never delivering anything more taxing than pizza, Stark has been drafted in to lead mission control to deliver a decarbonised grid by 2030. It is thought that Emma Pinchbeck, CEO of renewables cheerleader Energy U.K., is going to take over as CEO of the CCC. Emma has a classics degree from Oxford and began her career as a climate campaigner for WWF. Again, we find no evidence of any STEM expertise or proper commercial experience. The CCC does have some engineers and scientists on the board, but many of them have drunk the Kool-Aid, have interests in renewable energy or get their funding from billionaire climate activists.
Not only does Mad Emperor Miliband have no clothes, his entire entourage have Net Zero garments. We have the blind leading the blind, advised by clueless cronies who do not have the faintest idea about energy, engineering or the commercial world. They simply don’t know what they don’t know and are totally ill-equipped to challenge the tendentious twaddle put before them. Their idea of delivery is drawing boxes and triangles on PowerPoint presentations. Some of them might even be numerate enough to plug numbers into spreadsheets, but they do not have the faintest idea what their models mean in the real world. This is how we get plans for energy that halve per capita energy use by 2050, and nobody bats an eyelid. The entire energy policy establishment is broken.
The biographies of DESNZ ministers and senior civil servants are reproduced below.
DESNZ Labour Ministers
Labour has appointed six ministers to DESNZ:
- Ed Miliband as Secretary of State
- Sarah Jones as Minister of State
- Lord Hunt of Kings Heath as Minister of State
- Kerry McCarthy as Parliamentary Under-Secretary
- Miatta Fahnbulleh as Parliamentary Under-Secretary
- Michael Shanks as Parliamentary Under-Secretary
Let us look at their background and experience.
Ed Miliband
Ed and his brother David are the sons of Ralph Miliband who has been described as “one of the best-known academic Marxists of his generation”. Ed Miliband studied PPE at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, received a master’s in Economics at LSE and was then briefly a researcher for A Week in Politics before he was recruited to work as a researcher and speech writer for Harriet Harman, later becoming a spad for Gordon Brown in 1997. After a brief sabbatical at Harvard, and more advisory work on the Council of Economic Advisors, he became the MP for Doncaster North in 2005. In 2008, he became the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and announced that the U.K. would oblige itself to cut emissions by 80% by 2050, instead of the previously announced 60%.
Since then, he has held various positions, including Leader of the Opposition. However, it is noteworthy, that he has held no job outside of politics and media, and certainly has no first-hand knowledge of energy or engineering.
Sarah Jones MP
Sarah Jones read History at Durham and joined the Labour Party in 1992, and worked for Labour MP Mo Mowlam. She has also worked for Shelter and as the Head of Public Affairs for the NHS Confederation. Sarah served as a senior civil servant helping to deliver the 2012 Olympics and held various other roles, including working for Gatwick Airport. She was elected to Parliament in 2017 and, since then, she has chaired an APPG on knife crime and been a Shadow Minister for Housing and, later, Shadow Minister for the Police and Fire Service. Again, it is difficult to find any specific energy or engineering expertise.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Lord Hunt graduated in 1970 from the University of Leeds with a degree in political studies. His working career was in the healthcare sector, and since being elevated to the Lords, he has held ministerial positions in Health, Department for Work and Pensions, DEFRA and the Department of Energy and Climate Change. It is difficult to find any evidence of him ever working (other than as a minister) in energy or engineering, or indeed outside the public sector.
Kerry McCarthy MP
Kerry McCarthy read Russian Studies at Liverpool University before studying law at the City of London Polytechnic. She has worked as a lawyer for Abbey National and Merrill Lynch and held senior positions at Britain in Europe and the Waterfront Partnership. She was elected to Parliament in 2005 and has held various shadow ministerial positions, becoming Shadow Minister for Climate Change in 2022. Once again, we find no experience in energy, engineering, or STEM.
Miatta Fahnbulleh MP
Miatta Fahnbulleh studied PPE at Lincoln College, Oxford, and then gained a PhD in Economic Development from the LSE. She has described herself as a heterodox economist and, whilst head of the New Economics Foundation (NEF), certainly advocated some, shall we say, unconventional policies. These include “flooding the energy market with cheap renewables and introducing free basic energy”. Miatta and NEF have also advocated an additional windfall tax on oil and gas companies. Miatta was promoted to a ministerial position just a few days after first being elected to Parliament this year. Perhaps she might find these cheap renewables under a magic money tree. Again, no STEM experience and no experience of the private sector.
Michael Shanks MP
Michael Shanks graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in History and Politics. He worked in a charity for a while before becoming a teacher. He taught Modern Studies at a school in Scotland. He was elected to Parliament in a by-election in December 2023. Yet another minister without STEM experience and no experience of the commercial world.
Senior DESNZ Civil Servants
There are six senior civil servants in DESNZ, supported by a chief scientific advisor. These are:
- Jeremy Pocklington – Permanent Secretary
- Clive Maxwell – Second Permanent Secretary
- Jonathan Mills – Director General Energy and Markets Supply
- Ashley Ibbett – Director General of Energy Infrastructure
- Lee McDonough – Director General of Net Zero, Nuclear and International
- Ben Rimmington – Director General of Net Zero Buildings and Industry
- Professor Paul Monks – DESNZ Chief Scientific Advisor
Jeremy Pocklington
Jeremy Pocklington is the senior civil servant in DESNZ. He graduated from Oxford with a degree in Modern History and later gained a master’s in Economics and Social History. His entire career has been in the Civil Service with spells at the Treasury, the Cabinet Office, DECC and MHCLG. He became the Permanent Secretary in DESNZ in February 2023.
Clive Maxwell
Clive Maxwell graduated from Oxford with a degree in geography in 1992. The experience in his LinkedIn profile does not begin until July 2000, when he became the Head of Environmental and Transport Taxes and Savings Incentives in the Treasury. He then worked his way up in the Treasury before moving to the Office of Fair Trading, where he eventually became the Chief Executive. He subsequently returned to the Civil Service, where he held various senior positions in BEIS and DfT, before becoming the Second Permanent Secretary in DESNZ.
Jonathan Mills
It is not clear what subject Jonathan Mills studied at university, but he is listed as having an MA and MPhil in his biography on the website of De Montford University, so we can be reasonably certain that he is not from a STEM background. Since 2017, he has worked in several senior civil service roles. His career before 2017 is not listed in his biography.
Ashley Ibbett
Ashley Ibbett has been a civil servant for over two decades and has worked in a wide range of roles covering trade, science, innovation, competition and energy. It is not known if he had a career before joining the Civil Service, and his degree subject is not listed.
Lee McDonough
Lee McDonough is a career civil servant with an MBA from Imperial College. She has worked in several departments such as DEFRA, Health, BEIS and is now in charge of Net Zero, Nuclear and International at DESNZ. Her original degree is not listed.
Ben Rimmington
Ben Rimmington is a career civil servant with a degree in modern languages from Cambridge. He joined the Civil Service Fast Stream in 1995 and has worked in the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Business Innovation and Skills, Leeds City Enterprise Partnership, DfT and now DESNZ. There is no evidence of commercial experience, and clearly, he has no STEM background.
Professor Paul Monks
Professor Paul Monks graduated from Warwick University with a degree in Chemistry and went on to gain a doctorate in the same subject from Oxford. His career since then has been in research and academia, including a stretch at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre where he worked on astrochemistry. He became Chief Scientific Advisor to BEIS in 2020 and to DESNZ in 2023. At last, we have found someone with a STEM background, although in Chemistry with a special interest in astrochemistry. There is no evidence of experience in the commercial world.
David Turver writes the Eigen Values Substack page, where this article first appeared.
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Surely once you’ve got them in the kill box you don’t let them out. “Of course you can stay. Just have this nice jab. Don’t worry it is safe and effective.”
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/an-ungodly-alliance/
Somewhat related – the left and islam, otherwise known as useful idiots.
We in the UK have Bliar to thank for the destruction of this country. Evil, treasonous bastard.
David Starkey’s electrifying 40 minute lecture 10 days ago, (Youtube), ‘We Are About To Elect A Government Nobody Voted For,’ lays the blame for the coup de gras in the trashing of the Constitution firmly at Blair’s door from 1997 onwards.
Thanks for the link.
Yes but we should ask the current handwringers this —“How many people do you think can comfortably live in this country? 80 million,90 million,100 million? Are you happy that there will soon be no room to swing a cat in this country? (Someone else’s cat, not mine). Do you give a hoot about British traditions and culture as you allow floods of people from all corners of the globe with entirely different cultures, many who despise ours to enter here? Where are all the houses to come from, assuming all these millions will need one to live in? Do you seriously think you can create infrastructure for another 10 million people in a short space of time? And why do you want to? Are you aware that population growth in the UK is 5 times the EU average? We are now the most densely populated country in Europe. Your own governments figures estimate 130 million by the end of this century, and by then white people will be the “ethnic minority” in what used to be their own country and the “global majority” will outnumber us 3 to 1. ———Do any of you handwringing parasites even care about any of this?
Mass immigration
-destroy national identities
-destroy nation states
-destroy white civilisation
-destroy Christianity
-destroy the ties of blood, soil, culture
All part of the plan. All coordinated. Not a single formerly Anglo country is exempt, neither is Europe.
Yet I don’t see the idiots advocating mass invasions into say China, Japan, Musulman states, Africa, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico…..
And the towns and villages will eventually be no sanctuary. This will effect the middle classes, so many of them were in favour of mass immigration because it makes them feel nice!
Yes it’s all going to plan , they stopped Hitler to give us this 😵💫
Yup, in the last 2 years my very nice west country town has started on the process of being “enriched.”
Yes, indeed. The white flighters can run but they will not be able to hide.
No is the answer !
The die was set in 1972 when we joined the Common Market (EU). It’s all been downhill since then.
“You might have noticed that mass migration to the West is a huge problem”. ——-But a huge problem for who?—— I might think it is a huge problem, many on this website might, 3 quarters of the population might unless they are silly people like Amy Michel Turner. But what do UN bureaucrats think? What does the WEF think? What do or own lackey political class think? —–One man’s “huge problem” is another man’s “Everything in the garden is rosie”
Totally onboard with what Imtiaz states here regarding Islam and so-called ‘moderate Muslims’. Also a 2min vid of this Israeli lady on what the support of a ‘Palestinian State’ actually means;
”There’s an Egyptian saying, “First the Saturday people and then the Sunday people.” It means Muslims deal with the Jews, then the Christians.
The so-called “moderate” Muslims don’t have a theological leg to stand on. Islam is not moderate.
They differ only in the methods used to achieve those ends. There are a small number who not only do not support the Islamic hyenas but have often risked their lives by speaking out.
They’re a tiny fraction of a metastasizing gene pool that’s spread far too wide to be considered benign to civilization.
Freedoms like freedom of speech are a good thing among civilized people.
When a group that worships hate uses freedoms to propagate hate and supports killing and will not change, then these people need to be ejected from freedom-loving countries.
Even the so-called moderate Muslims will give money and support to the radicals who kill Jews and Christians; their religion requires this from them. And when push comes to shove the moderate Muslims will kill Jews and Christians too.
There is no such thing as “moderate Islam,”
President Erdogan of Turkey, who is a neo-Ottoman and practicing Sunni Muslim, said that such statements about “moderate” Islam were an offence to Muslims; he went on to say that “Islam is Islam and that’s it!”
The prophet himself said that waging jihad of the sword was so important to Islam that it ought to be considered the sixth pillar of Islam, and if a believer perishes while engaged in it, he is taken directly to paradise.
Christians and Jews are not the only ones targeted; anyone who is not a Muslim is considered fair game – and the Hindus, Buddhists, and others have also felt the Islamic whip down through the ages.
The single largest act of genocide in history took place in what is today the Indian subcontinent circa 1500-1550 when the Islamic Mughal Empire slew an estimated 50 million Hindus and other infidels.
Angela Merkle wanted Germany to become a member of the EU and she hated her own country. She bullied her people in favour of having Muslim Jew Haters over Germany.
Eventually, the parasites will outbreed the natives to such an extent that they can elect unassailable Islamic governments who will proceed to apply the same rules to imbeciles.
Israel is NOT on Muslim land. Muslims are squatters on Israel’s land. Those “Palestinians” are South Jordan and Egyptian squatters and they have no right to own any land in Israel.
The moral to all this is that it’s time for nations to deal with the Muslims, not as a religious community but as a political one, and as a belligerent community at that.”
https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1793922657915715821
Hear, hear.
Outstanding comment. Have you noticed this new leftist catchphrase that is all the rage among the open border Progressives? ——-“Global Majority”. They are using that instead of “ethnic minority” to stuff mass immigration down our throats
Maajid Nawas is one of the moderates and has been a beacon of common sense during the Covid psyop, and I often quote him as well as Mark Steyn who has written many books critical of Islam. They had an interview once about mainly Lockdowns; could’ve been a bit tasty on the subject of Islam LOL. I respect him as a man, but despise Islam.
Israel is NOT on Muslim land. Muslims are squatters on Israel’s land. Those “Palestinians” are South Jordan and Egyptian squatters and they have no right to own any land in Israel.
Oh, is it not? It was conquered by Muslims from the Romans in the 7th century AD and has, minus the crusader states intermezzo from 1098 – 1291 AD, been part of different Muslim states until the Brits conquered it towards the end of the first world war and said Brits chose to create a Jewish state to be populated by immigrants on this territory.
[Image shows the Ottoman Empire in 1914]
Looks like that’s factual history you’ve quoted so why so many downticks 🤔
So if it became muslim territory of various muslim states by conquest over history, why was it not British territory by conquest from the Ottomans?
And why then could the British not gift it for a Jewish state?
After all large parts of Europe became parts of the Soviet Union by conquest from the Germans in 1944-45. None of the Allied leaders contested that but it was agreed.
The nazi regime, aka ‘the 1000- Reich’ lasted a mere 12 years.
izlam has been imposing its oppressive fascistic political ideology around the globe for the last 1400 years. That it did not get a stranglehold on Europe was down to courageous European rulers and warriors repelling attempted invasions at the cost of their lives.
That we do not formally celebrate and honour those historical sacrifices is no real surprise. The dire ignorance displayed by idiot politicians referring to izlam as the ‘Religion of Peace’ after 9/11 and various other terrorist attacks cannot and should not be forgotten.
Millions died in WW1 & WW2 to protect our freedom, yet our blockheaded politicians have been endangering that freedom by blithely allowing the mass immigration of muzlims since the end of WW2. Their birth-rate exceeds ours alarmingly, but no government bothers to do the maths or come to the obvious conclusion that we will be outnumbered by people from an alien cult at some point in this century.
There are 500 mosques in London (now a captured city) but still these self-entitled, disrespectful people choose to bow their heads to the ground in the environs of Westminster Abbey and other Christian sacred sites. They exploit our democratic systems to gain power, but do not themselves believe in democracy, only conquest and the power to achieve global domination.
At what point will those whose duty it is to protect this country, its people and our way of life wake up to the clear and present danger, and DO something about it?
Or are the lot of them just a bunch of vile traitors being paid off?
Excellent article by Eugyppius, who asked us to respond. The reason the elites have treasonously opened the Gates of the West to mass invasion from the Third World is simply to destroy western civilisation, and the Ethnic Europeans who built it.
See the “Cloward-Piven Strategy”, the “Frankfurt School 11-Point Plan”, and the “Coudenhove-Kalergi Project”.
Here are some of today’s comments from ordinary people on this subject:
Legal net migration fell by 10 per cent last year but it’s still at 685,000 – as graphic shows which countries the most arrivals came from | Daily Mail Online
—“The rich have dual nationality (Sunak will go to USA, Boris has links to south of France (?) and USA, Mogg has links to Ireland). They are pumping out UK and fleeing abroad. They will leave a Mad Max situation behind.”
—“I’ve had several periods out of work during the last 20 years, only to find that my new colleagues, who were all immigrants, when I did find work had been working all the way through these periods at jobs that I was qualified for. I am a software developer, and 95% of the people I have worked with since 2000, have been immigrants. It is extremely rare to join a company and have any British team members at all.”
—“These figures are not exact. The illegal entry through the ports and overstaying when flying in is off the scale, the Home Office cannot handle the numbers. The Home Office have closed most of their offices, and staff are working from home with few resources.”
—“Does anyone remember when we the British people gave our government a mandate to culturally destroy our beloved country? I certainly don’t. What makes me sicker is that they, the government, then label those who oppose their vile actions as Racists or Fascists or Extremists. These are dark days, and it is evident that We the People, not just here but also across Europe, have had enough.”
—“I feel sick with worry for the younger generation of British people. What chance do they have in lawless Briton, where people who tick boxes will get jobs over us, where foreigners will get priority over those that have actually paid in to the system, and these people hate everything we stand for? Why should British people pay to keep the worlds low life?”
—“I know how you feel. I have three decent and gentle kids. I fear for them, too. Everyday I fear for them.”
—“It’s not only the Tories. In fact this is actually stemming from the authoritarian Left that seeped into the whole infrastructure of the country from Blair’s government onward. Tories are not really Tories anymore. Its not the rich’s fault. They are as against it as all of us. It is not a social class issue. Its an agenda by a Socialist style ideology. Two parties are merely puppets for a Global hierarchy.”
—“The system for counting exit visas, only introduced at any level in the last few years, is described as ‘experimental’ and ‘still developing’. They have no clue how many are actually here or how many came.”
—“India, get rid! Want to run all the shops and garages but don’t care to integrate into British ways, rude and arrogant.”
—“Still spinning that net figure based on half a million leaving. That is just bogus. They don’t know how many left. Nobody says “That’s me away and never coming back”. The gross figure is nearer the truth and that truth is frightening. The Blob is a Timber Equine now. They are herding them through the gates.”
Yes, and once again the solution is to shrink the state.
We can shrink it or watch it collapse.
Great article. The Kaiser Bauch YouTube channel is very informative re. all things demography and immigration, for anyone that’s not seen it.
Mark Steyn dealt with all this fourteen years ago.
You can still see it….
https://www.steynonline.com/14332/the-end-of-the-world-fourteen-years-on
Mark Steyn has had his considerable intellectual foresight tuned to world demographics for many years ! What a Man 😇👏
“You won’t survive for very long if you can’t control what enters you”
Ain’t that the whole point. Globalists need to break the Nation State. Promulgated by a late EU official and seems to be the agenda of the Open Society Foundation.
It’s to completely FU-K the western world up ! There you go , Answered 👍
Why would governments of the western world want to completely FU-K the western world up?
They are doing a good job of FU-KING the western world up, so you must think they are very competent in achieving their aim, whereas it looks to me like they are very incompetent. Do those clowns in government really look competent to you?
Elites love immigration – pushes down wages and divides the natives to stop them getting uppity.
Every government since WW2 to my knowledge has presided over increased immigration. Just a cockup. Who was it of Blair’s lot who said it was about rubbing our noses in it. US Democrats are replacing the electorate to assure themselves perpetual power. Merkel wanted a million Africans. Just a cockup.
Every bad policy carried out by governments is not either cockup or conspiracy, It’s often just bad policy for selfish reasons to benefit certain people in society, such as the Democrats policy on immigration, and they may either not care if it’s bad policy or not know it’s bad policy. They may convince themselves it’s good policy, and it’s often not clear what is good policy and what is bad policy. In the cases where they know it’s bad policy, but don’t care, for their own corrupt selfish reasons, they still aren’t trying to FU-K UP western society, they just selfishly don’t care enough if their policies FU-K UP society, but they’d prefer that they didn’t FU-K UP society, they’d prefer their corrupt policies would be popular and get them elected again, it’s just not their main priority.
It’s true there’s not always a grand, over-arching ideological aim, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a conspiracy. There does seem to be a good element of hatred of our civilisation that is common though – something I find puzzling.
Adverse consequences of immigration don’t affect elites and they don’t care about us or their civilisation. Do 3rd world despots care about ruining their countries? Why would ours be different if they think they can get away with it- which they are!
There’s a difference between western governments not caring ‘about us or their civilisation’ – which happens a lot – and deliberately trying to FU-K UP western society – which doesn’t happen at all.
“which doesn’t happen at all”
In your opinion. Others beg to differ. I can’t pretend to know what the true aims are, if any, but I find it hard to come up with alternative explanations.
You cannot create a One World Government, run by a small cabal of self-appointed Elite, without first destroying national cohesion.
The people orchestrating it knew that first the Anglosphere and then the other western democracies would have to be destroyed by mass immigration.
Peter Sutherland, UN Migration Chief openly said “the EU should do its best to undermine the homogeneity of its Member States by encouraging more migration and greater multiculturalism.”
Mass immigration is about destroying nation states; money and control.
“Mass immigration is about destroying nation states; money and control.”
Too bloody right. Great summarising sentence. I would add “perfect for unelected EU bureaucrats”.
The pensions argument is not a logical one, the vast majority of the “baby boomer” generation have paid for their pensions, sucessive governments have squandered it, as for migration, lets put it into perspective, they are not migrants, they are illegal gimmigrants, with no intention of working or intergrating, with regards to the so called “boat people”, how exactly can they have found £8/10.000 if they are persecuted or destitute in their “own” land?, this situation is going to end in civil war, and not just this country, europe as a whole is facing a very dire situation, full of people with hatred for the west.
The white minority might have to seek asylum in Greenland or Iceland.
“this situation is going to end in civil war, and not just this country, europe as a whole is facing a very dire situation, full of people with hatred for the west.”
We have already seen knife attacks and murders including in France using a truck to run down and kill French people.
It is only a matter of time before someone puts other lethal weapons into the hands of some of the Palestinian protestors in London and other British cities.
What the Serbs did to the muslims was genocide but we are starting to see what the motivation may have been – self-preservation.
There is a general assumption that logical understanding must be optimal or intelligent, but its motivation is the pursuit of efficiency. We are free to think and thought has myriad options, but it isn’t meaningful. It is an efficient system of representational meaning that grows in efficiency. The outcome is not the meaning thought about, but the total status of the informative process, as we see from the rollout of AI. Anyone searching for lost meaningfulness has to ” come to their senses” and reclaim proportionality, which has no time for process.