You're not wrong - the Conservatives were once the party of aspiration and people like to aspire to something better if not for themselves then for their families and communities. Why did the Co… (View Post)

Morning all :) Not quite as cheap as @Eabhal has found it but, yes, some positive news re: fuel prices with oil still below $70 a barrel. Whether that has the political or economic impact it once did… (View Post)

After crushing the football titans of Fiji 7-0 in the semi final, the clash to shake the very soul of the Southwest Pacific is now imminent. For a place in World Cup 2026 alongside Japan and God know… (View Post)

Of more immediate political import, local Government reorganisation (LGR to its friends) is exposing the tensions between largely Conservative run County Councils and District and Borough Councils wh… (View Post)

Musing on Heathrow can we consider this a Black Swan event or was it something eminently foreseeable and preventable? When we used to have snow in London and we went through the routine paralysis of … (View Post)