They really should rename it to Globelink News. Someone pointed out Henry Davenport’s similarity to Andrew Neil and it’s impossible to not see GBNews this way now. (View Post)

North West continues to look as if it's flattened out. It's a massive "if", but if the rate by which the cases growth is increasing continues to drop the way it has been, we could… (View Post)

Rate of increase continuing to slow for reported cases in England. Very encouraging. That's six days on the trot that the increase in the sum of 7-days cases has fallen. (For the avoidance of do… (View Post)

What happened with Alpha is that whilst the new variant was growing as a proportion, it was invisible. If you start with 5% new variant (growing at R=1.5) and 95% old variant (shrinking at R=0.9), yo… (View Post)

That's where LVT can come into its own. Replace council tax by an annual charge on the value of a plot with current permissions. If you've got planning permission, it kicks in immediately. … (View Post)