Indeed. He has spent years trying to make rehabiitation a reality and from what I understand has been markedly successful in it as well. When I heard he had been made prisons minister my first though… (View Post)

Of course they are. The builders love any loosening of planning regs as it saves them money. As I have said many times before planning regs are not about stopping building but about making sure it is… (View Post)

The FT last week described the French Communists as one the most moderate of the parties in the NPF. Doesn't exactly bode well does it. (Mind you I agree it would have been as bad if the RN had … (View Post)

LOL. CLearly they were expecting different numbers and only had time to change the figures not the pie slices. :) (View Post)

Point of order. We stopped mining iron ore because in a globalised market we could get it cheaper from vast open cast mines in other parts of the word. There are still huge reserves of iron ore just … (View Post)