Partly lack of children, partly unaffordability of London. It's been an issue on Hackney for a couple of years now, presumably this is just the same effect rippling out. Since I mostly do post-16 the… (View Post)

I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions. They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, outdated,… (View Post)

In economic terms, probably never. People like cheap taxis, food delivery and restaurants, and would be awfully cross if they had to pay non-exploitative rates for them. It doesn't really affect unem… (View Post)

Smarter ≠ Smart. Besides, what does this case have to do with his brief? At some point, the Conservative Party (and hence the British centre-right) went stark, raving, tonto. There's an interesting h… (View Post)

You are Jeffrey Archer and I claim my five pounds. Yeah, there's some truth in that- visceral experience beats numbers. To a degree. But there are two important buts. First is that human progress ten… (View Post)