I think this is less of a left/right issue and more of a centralisation/localism axis, which is why it's hard to discern a difference between Labour or Tories on this. I do not think Reform are going… (View Post)

Target culture. Law-abiding folk are easy targets. It's much more efficient to focus on them. This is what happens when you over centralise a system and are trying to monitor performance from the cen… (View Post)

To a certain extent that will reflect an ageing population, with lots of homebuyers being people moving house on retirement, downsizing after the death of a spouse, etc. Note it doesn't say "fir… (View Post)

It's a 16th century solution to a religion which in some aspects is behaving in the same way as the 16th century Catholic church, so I can see why it would be suggested, but I don't see how a 21st ce… (View Post)

The first order approximation is that almost everything that we currently do with fossil fuels (surface transport, home heating, etc), will in the future be done with electricity, and that our electr… (View Post)