2005 for me. And that was only because the candidate was a personal friend. Apart from that I only voted Tory once in my life - my first GE in 1987. Never voted Labour or Lib Dem either. My most comm… (View Post)

French hardly counts as a language ;) (View Post)

Certainly both my kid's schools had/have very strict policies about smartphones. Kids could bring them to school - for communication with parents etc before and after school - but they were bann… (View Post)

It was ever thus. The same problem exists with a lot of planning permissions where the local council is the developer. These days they don't even pretend to try and justify giving themselves pla… (View Post)

I don't disagree with you about the failings of some of the water companies nor the case for having some of them back in public ownership. But the record fines thing is probably rather misleadin… (View Post)