Scottsdale, Arizona is achingly prosperous under the sun and blue skies of late fall. Sometimes I question my decision to spend my adult life in a series of grey old places. (View Post)

Monster Raving Loony Party is sadly already taken. (View Post)

Is “Absolute Shite” one of the options being considered for the new name? It would be the most authentic. (View Post)

The whole concept of a VOA trying to figure out what a rateable value is a classic of “Late Communist Britain”. Rates should be applied according to land value. We have algorithms for that now. Resid… (View Post)

The budget wasn’t actually that bad. As noted upthread, Jeremy Hunt left one hell of a shitty bundle for Reeves to inherit. By and large she’s now cleaned it up. Much of the criticism is off-base. Th… (View Post)