Essentially in film in the classical Hollywood tradition we identify more with the protagonist than in a book; we get all kinds of visual cues to encourage this. So you don't need the epic intel… (View Post)

I've reflected overnight - not all young people have the crazy expectation that they all get to live in the top 5% of desirable areas, and rule out the rest even if they are more in line with th… (View Post)

It's probably not - it acts as a giant rationing mechanism to reduce inward migration of low-skilled labour, in line with people's strong political preference, and at some demented margin i… (View Post)

If you exclude the labour, the connections to services, the intrinsic cost of land for non-housing or even agri use, etc. (View Post)

It's Bolton, not Gulag. You can go out there, there are jobs, there are humans and the young people can make friends with them. You might not have the childcare bank of mum and grandma but the l… (View Post)