Surely mostly what it demonstrates is that if your favoured party is not in power you're more likely to think the country is going to the dogs? You'd want to look at the answer to that ques… (View Post)

Yes, if she's serious about "deliver deliver deliver" then "identify the handful of critical things to focus on and ruthlessly dump everything else that's likely to chew up t… (View Post)

That "may" seems to me to be doing a lot of work. I went through a state comprehensive and sixth form and went to Oxbridge in the 90s, and I wasn't getting extra tuition beyond what th… (View Post)

So, what are the figures here? Russian gas was (per google) about 40% of EU gas consumption, so losing that has indeed caused a crisis. How much food production are we losing to solar panels in the E… (View Post)

It is apparently 0.3% of the total farmed area in the East Midlands (from back-of-the-envelope math), so maybe? On the other hand: is this good productive farmland, or low-quality lousy farmland? And… (View Post)