Once you are out of the ground..... You could build your prisons on industrial estates. One of the reasons for industrial estates is the ease of building simple shaped, large buildings. And the neigh… (View Post)

As someone who works in/around the building trade. Much of that can be telescoped - especially by using standardised designs. I could definitely cut down on the site prep and foundations - just how f… (View Post)

Dartmoor Prison is in planning hell - remediating Radon is actually pretty trivial, but it has been bike shedded to hell and back. (View Post)

A thought. If Mayors are granted real powers, then how about an assembly of Mayors, once a week (or month)? When they get significant financial powers a chuck of the system (civil servants etc) will … (View Post)

On government coms in the modern era. The Government should get GCHQ to setup and run a fork of Signal, hosted in the UK. Usage would be mandatory for both politicians and civil servants. Message ret… (View Post)