Summer of love was 1988, wasn't it? Stone Roses heyday, certainly was slightly later - Spike Island was 1990. I was slightly too young for either. My main memory of summer 1988 was an advert for… (View Post)

Or, if planning laws are as important as everyone thinks, the immigration of 1m-ish a year will have to be abolished. One of the other. But not both. (View Post)

Ha, yes, I saw that. Breakfast pie is the stuff of dreams. Your mother's recipe sounds splendid, but I was thinking more of bacon, egg, sausage, beans, mushrooms and whatever regional additions … (View Post)

Jesus, that's tortuous. (View Post)

I assume the government chooses more immigration because the political pain in restricting immigration is greater than the political pain in not restricting it. The trying-to-restrict-immigration-is-… (View Post)