The NPR (formerly HS2/NPR) tunnel alignment goes from the Airport via Piccadilly to Marsden (near Huddersfield). DfT proposals are that it pops up to the surface at Piccadilly and that there is a tur… (View Post)

As an outsider who'd like to be able to vote Con, my preference is Cleverly. Kemi might be brilliant, or she might be seriously disappointing. Tom Tug would be ok. (View Post)

I wonder how many men there are in the Russian army still defending all its other borders? I have a mental image of some comedy sketch from the 1970s where the fort is defended by one fella and a lot… (View Post)

If you're a middle class parent, you kind of have to spend money on an SEN diagnosis because the waiting list is typically 2-6 years long. If you can't afford it, you just have to put up wi… (View Post)

I'm going to trot out one of my favourite pointless hobbyhorses again: the not-AV system for electing a single candidate shouldn't really be called FPTP, because there is no post - or rathe… (View Post)