In my time in local Government, I met and dealt with plenty of social workers and I had a friend who was a Housing Officer in a London Borough. Some of the stories they told about the people they enc… (View Post)

Morning all :) The modern media cycle has changed how Government is reported and how politics, as a result, functions. I suspect there has always been instability in Government, disputes, turf wars, … (View Post)

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)