EU member states and the EU itself have significantly increased measures to monitor and rationalise their spending and help fight against waste. In the United Kingdom an austerity policy clearly applies. Elsewhere, the term austerity is avoided but the situation speaks for itself. Why hasn't a similar orientation applied to external funding? The question is, in fact, being more frequently posed, as I can testify myself, but it is done so either indirectly or surreptitiously, so as not to...