In some regions it went on WAY longer than that. Much of Lancashire (to give one example) had people locked down though all the back end of 2020 as well. (View Post)

But it is though. We are its supplicants. Completely hooked on its industrial production - cars, computers, phones, 702,000 items on Amazon, most of the kids toys being gifted next Wednesday. It isn&… (View Post)

Lockdown 1 was surreal. Beautiful weather, everyone pulling together to do this thing, no vaccine and no masks mandate. By the time we got to lockdown 3 I was living in one of the Covid hotspots, the… (View Post)

Worse. We are acutely short of people who build houses. We are going to have to invest heavily in training and pay to make being a builder attractive. Because if we don't it means importing work… (View Post)

This is a point that nobody wants to address. A decent part of the need for housing is because large chunks of the housing stock is tatty and sat in communities that are tattier. We need to compulsor… (View Post)