It was a popular system from when town planning was invented - before the Romans. Layout and then get people building in parallel. The reason I mentioned the Victorians was they rolled out the system… (View Post)

Why would pension funds optimise the delivery of housing, rather than maximising investment profit? To increase home building, reduce costs and increase competition. Don’t grant local monopolies to h… (View Post)

What’s moderately hilarious in all this is that Burnham is just a populist of the Left. It’s almost trivial to be liked for advocating spending more money. Especially when you can blame not spending … (View Post)

Yes - obviously, the defections of many Labour members to the Greens, the creation of Your Party and the attempted candidatures of Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham are entirely motivated by the anger a… (View Post)

“…will Sir Keir Starmer ensure the candidate for the by-election is from an all women shortlist.” Seems like there would be an obvious route for Burnham in that case. The header from @Cyclefree would… (View Post)