That would be all well and good if it weren’t for the fact that council housing rents tend to be significantly cheaper than the rental achievable on the open market. So a council house buyer benefits… (View Post)

I personally think this particular rule - that no glazing changes are permitted because it “changes the look of the building” is absolutely ludicrous. We need to loosen Grade II listing permissions t… (View Post)

On the Vanguard refuelling fiasco: https://www.navylookout.com/hms-vanguard-finally-sails-from-devonport-after-refit-lasting-more-than-7-years/A senior uniformed stakeholder admitted last year “Vangu… (View Post)

I remember a Google engineer metaphorically holding his head in his hands when he discovered that there were people out there using GMail autocomplete as a divinatory source to decide how they should… (View Post)

The Civil Service is astonishingly insular. I guess that’s what happens to any bureaucracy that persists over decades: internal concerns inevitably dominate over external ones. (View Post)