Isn't the ownership rate a really poor proxy for use rates? My car does ~20k miles a year. My wife's car does about ~4k miles a year. I suspect that the big North - South divide isn't so much in the … (View Post)

What gives you the idea that the Tories haven't given Farrage much of a gap on the right? Immigration at >500k net, mostly on government visas to hold down wages in low paid sectors. Forget the sm… (View Post)

Low population density is the best thing about the north - the problem with the south is it's wildly overpopulated. Across the planet, we've about 4 acres per human of land area - packing them togeth… (View Post)

You make my point for me. That's a 40 mile commute each way across one of the busiest bits of the north and you did it regularly for 7 years, so it clearly did work. Doing a 40 mile commute by road i… (View Post)

To pick a different part of the charity sector - heritage railways. Most have charitable status, on the basis that preservation of and education about heritage assets is a public good. How do most vi… (View Post)