Yes, the rates relief from which the hospitality industry has benefited, was never going to last forever. It's a useful source of income to which councils have been denied but it's swings a… (View Post)

If we want to talk long term demographics, it's not looking good for China thanks to the one-child policy. The median age in both China and Russia is 40.3 years, in the UK it's 40.1, in the… (View Post)

I'm not 100% sure it's "good news" for Starmer as it polarises the anti-Labour vote on the "left" to one place rather than dividing it. In my Borough, Newham, I now expe… (View Post)

We have a rare poll from BMG to consider: RFM: 30% (-5) LAB: 22% (+2) CON: 20% (+3) GRN: 12% (+5) LDM: 12% (-1) SNP: 2% (=) Changes from the last poll at the end of August. Not quite sure how the pos… (View Post)

Set against a background of cheap food, cheap fuel, cheap money and endlessly rising asset values, yes it was and by 1999 moat agreed some additional public spending was not only justified but necess… (View Post)