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Elon Musk

DOGE for India

US President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement of a proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) drew varied reactions. The choice of leaders of DOGE ~ Elon Musk who heads Tesla, social media platform X, and rocket company SpaceX, and Vivek Ramaswamy who is the founder of a pharmaceutical company ~ elicited copious criticism, mostly because both gentlemen have zero experience in government.

Lean government

The proposed “Department of Government Efficiency” (Doge) in the United States, a new advisory body spearheaded by two prominent figures known for their bold cost-cutting visions, signals a renewed approach to tackling America’s sprawling federal bureaucracy.

Pedagogy of unwellness

The Duke of Cumberland and uncle of Queen Victoria fiercely opposed the expansion of the Great Western Railways on the strange ground that its rumbling “would disturb Eton’s schoolboys.”