And - surprisingly - poor people are bigger users of electricity as a proportion than rich people. The progressive thing to do is keep electricity taxes low and push them up on gas and petrol/diesel. (View Post)

The other thing is that not everywhere is blessed with the number of parks, coast, off-road cycle infrastructure in the same way that Edinburgh is. (View Post)

Not at all. I'm as unhappy as you that there are so few high quality, medium density flats available in the UK. The real rabbit hutches are the tiny Barratt detached houses with no storage, a plastic… (View Post)

I'd love to have a big mansion on Barnton Avenue and a small castle in the Highlands too - but that's not going to be possible for 5.6 million people. You can hardly call the New Town's apartments or… (View Post)

FPT overall population density is not a great metric for measuring how much room there is in a country. People in Scotland live in closer proximity to each other than people in England, despite a muc… (View Post)