How would you do it? Simply add the house price to the CPI basket? With what kind of weight? Or would you go down the rental equivalence approach used in the US CPI and our own CPIH measure? (View Post)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BR_Standard_Class_7_70000_Britannia A loud whistle and then this beautiful machine just powered past us at Denmark Hill, an unexpected bonus this morning. (View Post)

Well it was awful. The policing of the miners strike was horrific, pure class war stuff. HMQ understood that she was Queen of the whole nation, while Thatcher viewed her fellow countrymen as the … (View Post)

Yes London or at least inner London is one of the places where 24hr 20mph limits make sense. It is incredible how many people are out and about at all hours in New Cross, too. (View Post)

Cars can do 20mph no problem, it's drivers who find it difficult to adjust at first. I drive mostly in London and am used to doing twenty, so it's easy, I know exactly when I am doing 20 or… (View Post)