MPs are the last people you want to be Speakers. The Speaker is supposed to be impartial while they clearly aren't. Also his constituents are basically disenfranchised for a decade. I've lo… (View Post)

That's the whole of the rest of the school year I imagine. (View Post)

Many more German civilians would have survived the Dresden raid had the Nazi city government bothered to provide enough proper air raid shelters in the city. Of course they made sure they had them fo… (View Post)

It just shows what freakish and unpredictable things by-elections are. Like mid-term opinion polls, anoraks like obsessing over them, but they mean absolutely nothing at the next general election. Th… (View Post)

I think you're overstating the extent to which the country is concreted over because most of the 5.5% will be gardens. The actual proportion of concrete may be 1-2%. Another way to look at it is… (View Post)