If you can make it stick (and avoid getting yourself strung up or run out of the country), anything is possible... And making something stick is a lot easier if you have your hands on the practical l… (View Post)

I don't think it's heresy, I just don't believe anybody who claims to know how to do it. If it was was easy we'd already be doing it. Exception: for the case of a country which is… (View Post)

I imagine it will depend on whether the flats are supplied with communal hot water and/or heating, versus whether they have individual gas or electric supplies to each flat which then has its own sel… (View Post)

I would prefer it if our public institutions also *anticipated* public concerns. Somebody needs to do the long-term planning, and it's not likely to be the general public... (View Post)

True, but there's a lot of scope for different ways in which that 'say' feeds into the final result -- should the members get the final decisive choice, or do you combine that with the… (View Post)