Because next to nobody knows Hall and the election is a year away. (View Post)

I feel the same narrative is true of a lot of times in history, like the Industrial Revolution, the Thirty Years' War, the Reformation, and so on. Perhaps it was a more gradual process. (View Post)

Complaints about "housing developers" tell you what these people are aiming for. A sort of state-controlled housing sector where workers get taxed to house non-workers like arts students. (View Post)

My guess is the average voter does not yet know it is a FPTP election, and Labour will stage the mother of all bar-chart campaigns. I do not see a world where the LDs avoid getting squeezed to 5% or … (View Post)

If I recall, the Japanese railway companies are also relatively big in commercial real estate development. That may be a bigger problem than aging rural lines down the, erm, tracks. (View Post)