...of course, you have to hope you can correctly identify that other location. I'm currently listening to the 2012 Reith lectures which were by conservative-leaning economic historian Niall Ferguson.… (View Post)

Yes, it's amazeing... I blame the labyrinthine bureaucracy, personally. (View Post)

Yeah; the flipside of "you have a massive electoral mountain to climb to get to a majority" is "anybody who stuck with you at the base of the trough is unlikely to be drifting elsewher… (View Post)

Mmm, having dodged it and all other coughs, colds and miscellaneous respiratory ailments since 2019 I finally caught it a couple of weeks ago. It does seem to be rather variable in how hard it hits. … (View Post)

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)