Ah, not a Ponzi scheme, just a way to commit a crime? (View Post)

Cookie's post is great (and I agree about stamp duty too). When we formed the current non-Tory coalition in Waverley, we came up against the awkward fact that Labour had campaigned on "more… (View Post)

Not me. The former council's ridiculously strict planning policy means that all the homes are in areas unpolluted by, um, shops, and all the shops are nearly half an hour's walk away, partl… (View Post)

I don't think it's really a left/right thing anywhere. Growing up on the Continent, I never saw a school uniform, and when I returned to Britain I said the whole idea seemed to me antiquate… (View Post)

As an MP I had a visit from a constituent who asked where she could get advice on how to deal with her unreasonable husband, giving lots of details. A few weeks later I had an enquiry from a constitu… (View Post)