Obviously my personal view is that Manchester is far better than Birmingham as a place to be, but I am absolutely not bothered whether it's Manchester or Birmingham - just get them out of London… (View Post)

On which subject, this is worth 20 minutes of anybody's time - a history of the relative size of Britain's cities. The presenter is an urbanist rather than a historian so there may be a cou… (View Post)

I'm very much in the 'move the capital to somewhere more central' lobby. But one argument in favour of the 'keep parliament in the PoW' camp is that if we were to have a new … (View Post)

For a lovely moment I thought you were bringing us news of the UK Liberal Party - i.e. the ones who stayed in the old party after the bulk of members joined the new Lib Dem Party in 1989. I hadn'… (View Post)

I'm a quiet republican, but the branding of the government strikes me as a problem which doesn't need to be solved. It's "ooh, look at us, we're modern". (View Post)