Yes and no. You're entirely correct that just driving further is in itself not a good - baring classic car enthusiasts and learner drivers, not many people go out in their cars just for the sake of i… (View Post)

That increase in debt interest was coming anyway - Truss only accelerated the process slightly. The real problem is that we have the debt in the first place - essentially because Blair and Brown mass… (View Post)

I shouldn't worry too much. Between Notwork Fail and the DFT, said trains will probably have been worn out and replaced before any knitting is actually errected along the coast. (View Post)

Or proves that the roads are so horrible down South that people have to use public transport. The truth is probably a bit of a mixture. If Manchester's suburbs had the quality of public transport tha… (View Post)

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)