And yet they are building 1 million new houses in the corridor between Cambridge and Oxford. It is quicker for me to get into central London from Grantham than it is from most of the commuter belt. (View Post)

Almost no brownfield is converted to green space. It would be great if it were. Much of it is left for decades without being either developed or converted. And it never ceases to amaze me that poeple… (View Post)

As Marquee Mark of this parish will tell you, for the purposes of recording moths and butterflies (as well as other biological and scientific observations) there is a system of vice-counties, started… (View Post)

What is strange about the US system is that counties can move state. If you don't like the policies of the state you are in then you can apply to move to an adjacent state. It is not easy becaus… (View Post)

Its a great model for the future (not). Drive a business into the ground through imposing huge energy costs, then take them over claiming to be doing it to save them. (View Post)