God help us all. The best we can hope for is that, as a far more secular society than the United States, we prove more immune to the slide into Christian Fascism. (View Post)

Labour won't offer PR even if they don't get a decent majority. Just because some of us hope that they might make a better fist of governing than the Conservatives, it does no good to get dewy-eyed o… (View Post)

How much of the money spent by the owners of the water monopolies came out of their own pockets, and how much came from ours? Does the operation of an English water business bear any relation to the … (View Post)

That observation about price growth trends is not entirely without merit, albeit that wages have performed so badly since the GFC that average prices as a multiple of average earnings have continued … (View Post)

That's just one more baleful consequence of the rotten property market. Piles of bricks are an almost guaranteed safe investment, offering stratospheric growth - thus, people are disincentivised from… (View Post)