Anecdote alert - irrelevant to the local elections. A friend is (improbably) a prince in the UAE (they have hundreds of princes in their seven royal families so it's less of a big deal than it w… (View Post)

It's worse than that. They have responsibility for those issues, but very little power, because so much of it is mandated by central government, which often uses those mandates as a way to cut s… (View Post)

Holborn and St Pancras? (View Post)

Labour is bad at both politics and government. Starmer and his Cabinet have no vision or charisma, and the ideology they are trying to impose, of ever higher taxes to fund mediocre to poor public ser… (View Post)

Yes Cameron was particularly stupid in not allowing anybody to do any planning for a Yes vote. I think an alternative is two referenda, one to start negotiations and the second on a final deal. Of co… (View Post)