I agree with that. Building civic society is perhaps better done from the voluntary sector at present, where years of work will not be destroyed on the whim of some self-promoter in Westminster. Even… (View Post)

Report back. Last month the DVLA rather screwed up my driving license in their bureaucracy, and were threatening evocation. It appears that this is now probably resolved (subject to the thing arrivin… (View Post)

Now there's a can of worms for a morning ! (The actual number for dwelling floor area in England is around 1900 sqkm - 25 million dwellings at 75sqm, which would be land occupied if they were al… (View Post)

One serious point is that both parties have failed to invest significantly in soft power, such as overseas diplomats, British Council, BBC World Service, overseas aid / development and so on. Not eve… (View Post)

Answering my own question, oil industry news sites suggest that that pipeline has a capacity of 1.8m bpd, and is running at about 1.1m bpd. So that leaves short term upside of .7m bpd, which will hel… (View Post)