Not sure I'm keen on the precedent being set here. Doesn't it give another would-be Prime Minister cover to continue avoiding a big question... a question worth five million pounds, one mig… (View Post)

It required some incredibly bad government (Boris's ethics, Truss's everything) and incredibly bad luck (COVID and the global consequences of Ukraine). However poor the government has been … (View Post)

Weren't they going away? (View Post)

I think the big one is meant to be tree coverage- both shade and transpiration. For example, https://www.arup.com/news/londons-most-extreme-urban-heat-island-hot-spot-compared-to-five-other-global-ci… (View Post)

Nope- it's a dismal scabbling round for scraps of cash that can fund the state without changing the headline rates of the big taxes. Nothing more. (View Post)