And yet again we return to your fundamental misunderstanding of planning permission and what it is for. It is not there to stop houses being built. It is there to make sure that when developments occ… (View Post)

Whilst I understand your point to some extent, it is somewhat disingenuous. Whilst 75% may be farming, neither you nor anyone else seem to be suggesting building these new homes anywhere other than a… (View Post)

The gaps in my knowledge about Russia are vast but the impression I get from everyone else both here and in the news generally is that there is no alternative to a permanent defence against Russia un… (View Post)

The latter. When one of the UK independent oil companies decided to develop a field West of Shetlands about a decade ago and it went wrong (as they do rather often) they ended up costing them somewhe… (View Post)

On the topic of a single corporation dictating the market, it can't and it doesn't. At a global scale what Shell or BP do is nothing when the control of prices rests with OPEC. Put crudely,… (View Post)