Thank you so much for giving all the pleasure of debates and insights over the last twenty years - longer than most magazines manage! All the very best, Mike. (View Post)

Lol! a) is especially good. I once got a vote because I was the tallest candidate. Another voter wanted to make it illegal to speak a foreign language on British soil, but was voting for me out of ha… (View Post)

No, because mobile populations (think students) move frequently, and they then don't register at all. If you moved every few months, are you sure you'd bother? The other underrepresented city people … (View Post)

On the other hand, I'd argue that Labour shouldn't abolish voter ID, but instruct the boundary commission to base seats on census data, not on registered voters. That's a technical change that would … (View Post)

That's very interesting, and I sympathise with the critic. The original article cites Vienna as a good example, and I agree that Vienna, whose housing policies I know quite well, is very pro-tenant: … (View Post)