They do, but if we have a government that prefers optics to reality, we end up in even worse trouble. And that's true, whatever the government's colour. (View Post)

Companies have a duty to their shareholders to be as greedy as they can get away with. The key bit being judging how much they can get away with. It's why private monopolies are such a problem. (View Post)

County Council Network pushing for unitary counties? Mandy Rice-Davis would like six words. (View Post)

Part of their problem- if you are that small and shoestring an organisation, how much publicity can you do? (And how sensible will that publicity be? The local TV station in Cambridge was called Camb… (View Post)

So the national interest (in the short term, these people have to go somewhere) overrides the local one (not near me). Nimbies are bad, in other words. Politically, it's not a popular line, but … (View Post)