This may sound insensitive, but aren't you as guilty as the Johnsonites of putting ideology before pragmatism? Your dilemma starts with the profoundly unpragmatic (and, to me, unConservative) fixatio… (View Post)

Records for retail growth go back much further than 1995. The data that's exercising today's papers is retail sales among members of the British Retail Council, which account for about 65% of all sal… (View Post)

It's depressing how far this thread has wandered from Mike Smithson's intro about Brecon & Radnor. Because, if the Number Cruncher Politics poll proves accurate - and it confirms my own impressio… (View Post)