NAO does very readable and very insightful reports! eg this short 2013 one on how optimism bias happens is really, really useful reading for any sort of project delivery www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/u...

It feels like the Gordon equivalent of those big Russell T Davies season finales where all the alien factions turn up in the same storyline

I would sit happily through even the world’s longest conference plenary session on this one

When I was teaching lit. to 1st-yr undergrads a fair number struggled with leaving behind the mindset of "there's a correct answer here and my job is to find and repeat it, and once I've got it then it doesn't matter who said it first because it's the truth" - not quite the same but I think related.

Challenge: come up with a backronym for "OUGH" and sit back to watch the resulting fun*.

* The fun that results may not in fact be fun.