I’ve honestly never had a problem with it - it just works. Clutch down, engine starts before you have time to do anything else, off you go. There’s a light on the dash to tell you that it’s decided t… (View Post)

Oxbridge colleges cost a sodding fortune to keep running. Without their endowments, they’d all be bankrupt from the maintenance burden. (View Post)

50 / year cannot be a “standard budget” because it’s impossible to maintain a workable school estate with that replacement rate. After a few decades of 50 / year schools around the country will be fa… (View Post)

Something else that I’d like to see journalists pushing on: there are something like 32,000 state schools in the UK. Replacing 50 a year means it takes 650 years to get through them all. How many sch… (View Post)

Actual quote from the ex-civil servant here: https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/1698595798445932834 btw. He’s absolutely clear that they were rebuilding 100/year, that 300-400 were needed & th… (View Post)