It's Brooks' friends who turned it violent. He is one of two or three partisan reporters there feeding the movement - one of the others is Urban Scoop who put out a video showing "a pr… (View Post)

The Chief Executive's action was spot on. She said (paraphrased) 'In this Council the practise has been that it is my role to decide on flags. If you want to change that, then you need a vo… (View Post)

I'll defend Dale on this one. I will give you that he is a (self-admitted & perhaps self-regarding) media tart, but he has also done some genuinely innovative and interesting things - perhap… (View Post)

We have unfortunately just turned down the Octopus / Sahara deal wind/solar ("'to promote domestic renewables'), which would have accounted for approximately 10GW of supply. I think th… (View Post)

That's imo quite a peculiar (maybe 'meaningless' is a good word) question. I think you have your magisteria overlapping strangely. Is a guinea pig or a rabbit more toaster-like? (View Post)