The problem is that benefits aren't being used as a safety net, they are being used to support families long-term (View Post)

Private Eye used to call him Botney (View Post)

One of the issues round my way is that there is a lot of nimbyism against building flats. It is probably true that a lot of big developments are sold to cash buyers renting to whores and drug dealers… (View Post)

I imagine it's a prerogative function. Of course they are now justiciable, as the Supreme Court found when deciding that Boris's prorogation was unlawful. I still don't understand why we don't just c… (View Post)

I agree about Albania, although it probably needs to be visited off-season as it tends to fill up with Italians. Kosovo is a bit different as some of the locals still seem to do Islam (Yugoslavia was… (View Post)