This is all true. And the corollary is that - given that broken homes do exist and are going to exist for the foreseeable future - the single best investment Government can make is in properly resour… (View Post)

I don't get the whole "maths at 18" obsession. A-level maths is pretty abstruse. I write fairly complex geometry code these days, inter alia, and even then pretty much everything I need was… (View Post)

Ooof. The Telegraph, of all places, unimpressed with Sunak. "Mordaunt ended with a rallying cry for the Conservative Party to “stand up and fight!” In fairness, it does appear to be doing that. … (View Post)

Thanks (and @RochdalePioneers). And there was I thinking Edinburgh Waverley was the other one... (View Post)

Oh, and: electrifying the North Wales Coast main line. This is a good thing. Wouldn't be the top of anyone's list of electrifications, but hey. Just one thing. There is a very expensive fleet of 13 t… (View Post)