Council tax goes up by more but less is delivered because the grant from central government has been cut sharply. So even though council tax has gone up the total funding available to your council is… (View Post)

The "shuffle Harris off to the SC" theory has always seemed to me like one floated and passed on by people who really want to solve a problem so much that they're ignoring the implausi… (View Post)

The level of language ability you need to successfully negotiate dealing with a bad medical problem, or getting into difficulties with the police, is actually pretty high -- I would expect that for s… (View Post)

The numbers here clearly are not going to work, but I note that the SF proposal reported by the Guardian is not "reparations for slavery" but "for decades of racist treatment by the ci… (View Post)

Well, yeah, but it always felt more like a genius for getting elected than a genius for the actual job. It's an unfortunate failure mode for democracy that it tends to select more for those who … (View Post)