And, in "this clearly shouldn't need saying, but maybe today it does" news, Mob rule would be a very bad thing. (View Post)

Stubbornness isn't consistent with a 30 minute verdict. Given the timeframe, it's pretty likely that they were all agreed. And given the different histories of racism in the UK and USA, a shiny sixpe… (View Post)

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 They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, outdated,… (View Post)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)