A telephone engineer nowadays is some sort of tech expert, mixing remote working on a keyboard with home visits and the like. Surely middle class, as HY says. Back when Burnham was being conceived, i… (View Post)

I don't hate him either, and he did do us the huge favour of removing the venal incompetants that preceded him. The disappointment is a failure to seize the opportunity to seriously tackle any of the… (View Post)

and remarkably clean, uniform roofs (View Post)

Longer than that, I think, and back when social renting provided nearly 20% of housing, having a secure council flat or house fulfilled the same role of providing housing security for many working pe… (View Post)

In times gone by, at age range 35-54, most people would (insofar as it is what they want) have expected to be established in some sort of career or at least stable employment, established on the hous… (View Post)