I've personally benefitted from the cycle-to-work scheme. But it feels to me like it's one of those middle class benefits which is hard to defend or demonstrate the benefits of. Most people I know wh… (View Post)

It's not often I can agree with all 11 points of an eleven point manifesti, but I'll sign up for this. Usually lists of demands focus on what money should be spent on. We can all do that. What money … (View Post)

Is Labour really going to elect a fourth North London leader in a row? Probably, yes. (View Post)

I don't deny they make some clever stuff (though I'd be very wary about anything which eased my data into tge hands of the Chinese) - I just doubt their economics. I don't know about this particular … (View Post)

Well up to a point. The lot of yer average Chinese person would appear to have imoroved considerably in the last 40 years, but a) I am sceptical it has done so by more than the counterfactual in whic… (View Post)