We're looking at a growth of about 5 million (7.3%) by 2032 with fertility rates due to bottom out in a couple of years (not sure about that but plenty of mothers with babies in Wanstead on Friday mo… (View Post)

The problem is trying to define "pensioners" as a single homogenous block. All they have in common is their age - economicaly and financially, they are as diverse as the rest of us. I had n… (View Post)

Ain't that the truth? The paucity of practical, cost effective and legal solutions to most of our problems is being laid bare at the series of jamborees known as the party conferences. Some will talk… (View Post)

Oh dear, I suppose the "left" includes the long periods of Conservative-led Government from 1979 to 1997 and 2010 to 2024. I don't see us as being "at the brink of social and economic … (View Post)

I remember travelling in the early days of the DLR (around 1990) with a colleague who went to work for the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC). We both looked out over the expanse of the … (View Post)