In my previous piece I lauded, with a few reservations, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the United States of America. I applauded the way that President Trump and the head of the temporary government agency DOGE, Elon Musk, had identified areas of waste, inefficiency and politically correct spending and shut down these fiscal drains.

In my article I wondered just how much money countries like the United Kingdom are wasting on rubbish or DEI or on stuff that neither enhances the UK’s overseas reach or benefits the average British subject at home. I made a passing comment on the prospects of a British DOGE but yesterday, as if by serendipity, I came across an article on the Critic magazine by Charlotte Gill that is discussing this very subject.

Ms Gill has done an enormous amount of sterling work uncovering waste and politically correct and left wing funding choices. Ms Gill has been particularly good with her investigations into some of the projects that have been funded by the research councils. Ms Gill has been digging into waste and inappropriate spending for a long time, in fact I’d say that Ms Gill has been exposing waste far longer than it has been thought fashionable by the mainstream commentariat to do so. She was doing what she does way way before DOGE US was even a twinkle in Mr Elon Musk’s eye.

Ms Gill has set up a ‘DOGE UK’ and although it has sadly no statutory powers her organisation is likely to be of great help in exposing the millions upon millions of pounds that are spunked up the wall on woke waste.

In her article in The Critic Ms Gill after highlighting some of the woke waste she’s uncovered, such as funding for a study of the experiences of ‘pregnant men’ Ms Gill said this:

British taxpayers should not have to fund projects which are irrelevant to their lives — still less institutions which disrespect and undermine them. Change is needed.

Ms Gill is dead correct there in what she’s said. The money that the state extorts from the ordinary British subject should in the main be spent on things that benefit the nation and which benefit Britons, not only on stuff that the Middle Class Left want to spend it on.