Thames Water is a wonderful metaphor for the entire British economy, nay, all of British life. If Dickens were alive today, he’d he writing about them. (View Post)

Don’t be daft. What would Johnson be adding at this moment? (View Post)

I wrote this last night, and this morning I see that after a year’s investigation the Competition and Markets Authority has said precisely the same thing. Please someone make me dictator of the UK an… (View Post)

As seen here on here, Tokyo suggests this is not correct. As do Houston and various Southern US cities. And successful British cities - which is really just London and Edinburgh - are outliers in ter… (View Post)

Developers land-bank because the planning and development process is so protracted and unpredictable. It becomes a form of insurance. Britain literally incentivises an oligopoly of developers to land… (View Post)