Thoughts on Ukraine, having been here for a week. We’re staying in the city of Zhytomr, a regional capital of around 250,000 people 130km West of Ukraine. I have to say that it’s been a good week, an… (View Post)

(Part 2/2) Perhaps one of the most amazing things is that there is little evidence of the ongoing war here. There’s a memorial in the main square (photo to follow), some reinforcements around key pub… (View Post)

Meanwhile Denise Coates alone pays £300m or £400m a year in income tax. Has the government actually thought through what they might propose? I think that’s a rhetorical question. (View Post)

Didn’t one housing minister just resign for being a crappy landlady? IMHO the single biggest policy failure of the last three decades has been on housing. (View Post)

Look at Dubai as well. Summer is off-season there, and the clinics are up to UK standards. (View Post)