How long before someone tries creating an international treaty that says the rights of citizens have primacy over the rights of non-citizens. So an human rights ruling on Right to Family life, in a d… (View Post)

Waste of time since it’s all Googleable I actually wrote a scraper that would take all the PB comments extant and turn them into a data cube - search by all the dimensions you could wish for. Then I … (View Post)

Defeating NIMBYism is like peeling an onion. Building the services first, preventing a house building monopoly, preventing them building shite and giving some thought to construction noise… maybe (sh… (View Post)

Well, we can’t have railway stations anymore. For a start, you need a station master in full dress, with a gold pocket watch on a chain. So it’s train stations from here on in. (View Post)

On the other hand, that’s how the Victorians and Edwardians built suburbs - put in the public services first. Town hall, schools, fire station, train station etc. Plots of land sold to multiple deepe… (View Post)