Roughly 2% of forests in Finland are undisturbed habitat and they are in the far north. The remaining 98% should be classed as agricultural land (albeit with a crop that takes 50 years to grow). (View Post)

I'm not sure about that - it depends very much on the state of your health in retirement. A lot of people are living longer but are not able to do much with it. (View Post)

Poster update: Still no posters seen in the Flatlands. But did do a bit of travelling yesterday. Conclusions: The Tories will win with at least 85.7% of the vote, with the Greens the opposition and a… (View Post)

There's going to be a lot of nanny-stateism and quangocracy coming. Whatever happened to Labour's plan to allow some mega-casinos to be built? The space for one here (created by demolishing… (View Post)

The aquifer is definitely a problem here, and we've had an awful lot of house building recently. Admittedly we won't run of water this year as we've had 175% of normal rainfall - but a… (View Post)