Going back to the Netherlands again - it is a bit of a myth that the Netherlands is anti-car. In fact, @BartholomewRoberts would love it. It's disconcertingly like being in a massive new town - … (View Post)

I don't think you and Eabhal are necessarily disagreeing here. He's not saying that owning a car is bad - just that owning a car is so expensive that once you have one it makes sense to use… (View Post)

Though when you get Poundburys, they are very popular. I have a hobbyhorse about a delivery model of public-sector-as-developer-of-private-housing. The public sector gets to specify what everything l… (View Post)

Dutch cycling culture is quite interesting. It is quite different from ours. It is almost all on knackered old bikes at speeds barely more than running pace. Which, in generalised journey cost terms … (View Post)

I saw an interesting map recently: the UK consumption of sugar is on the low side compared to European averages. Clearly this is just one measure, but I'd always thought this quite a good proxy … (View Post)