You probably wouldn't tax motorways. That's where you want the traffic to be. You'd tax city centres and minor suburban roads the highest, busy urban arterial roads in the middle, and motorways and q… (View Post)

I have just been up to the local footbridge over the M60 - which in the flat lands of South Manchester is the highest point around - to look at the fireworks with my wife and some daughters. We also … (View Post)

People don't wear suits any more. Poppies were much more common when people wore the same jacket and/or coat every day. I ususally buy a poppy. But I have nowhere really to put it. (View Post)

Apparently during the Cold War NZ was one of the Soviet Union's prime targets. They were highly suspicious of its claims to nuclear-freeness and thought the west was hiding something big there and th… (View Post)

A friend of mine who is a university librarian is mocking them on facebook. If they've lost the university librarian vote, you have to wonder which constituencies are still loyal. (View Post)