Two points in this appalling story of Government failure. Firstly, solid wall insulation is by some degree the most expensive form of insulation. This means that these measures are now guaranteed to cost more than they would ever save. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Only in arguments supporting fox hunting have I seen more transparently bollocks justification than from NIMBYs. The perfect development they want is a fantasy. They just don't want stuff built. 80 children died in temp. accom. between Oct 24 and Sept 24. That won't change unless we build.
If you want a classic of the NIMBY local press genre, this is it.
This is a brownfield (ex-hard stand caravan park) site, in the very centre of Bristop, where 40% of homes will be affordable. Its basically the dream development NIMBYs demand.
Lols, right! I'm not even that patriotic but I refuse to be lectured on food from a country whose crowning achievement food wise is the Twinkie. Don't get me wrong, there's some right awful stuff in our food history. But it's not the 60s anymore. Globalisation & EU integration has helped massively.
Yanks (assuming) can get to fuck on food culture. All their good stuff is evolution of immigrant cooking from the old countries. Actual American food is greasy slop, or hyper processed bollocks.
The sector will continue to see mergers as a combination of financial pressures, fiefdom building and retirements push smaller orgs towards the bigger boys and girls. Challenge for the regulator is the cliff edge in delivery for tenants post 50k units (ish).
Labour will fail its central mission without changes to our tax system - you cannot improve public services without more cash. Though that must include a broad base increase in income tax. Reform of council tax (an awful form of taxation) makes sense.
Agreed. Even as a long term supporter of (specifically) increasing social housing. Govt can (and has) increased funding for for social and, provide greater stability on rent increases. But until the market is able to build en masse, the dial won't shift - planning reform is essential in that regard.
Yes because that’s what happens when you build so little market rate housing. The need is for market rate housing to lower average rents so fewer people need social rents.
These plans to cut affordable housing requirements in London highlight the absurdity of the system. Basically, when supply slows housebuilders have the system over a barrel. And so what gets delivered does not meet the biggest needs- for low cost housing.
So, there's the academic trolley theory which is a thought experiment that involves a run away train and an option to kill one person or many. But the other trolley theory that I'm referring to relates is whether people voluntarily (& without obvious reward) put their shopping trolley back in a bay.
JD Vance is a laughably bad Catholic who manages to entirely misunderstand the central tenets of his proclaimed faith. Not alone in that regard, the Christianity of the American far right is not one that holds up when one actually studies the messages of the holy texts.
The Conservatives have pledged they will increase the number of deportations to 150k/year
- while significantly reducing the size of the civil service - without increasing government spending and taxation. - and opposing mandatory identification.
Agreed on the vacuum ideas wise. But the increasingly unabashed racism? What's the driver there? Can't be just Twitter morphing into X? Like, I don't like, but totally get using leaving ECHR as the new Brexit. But being bigots? How does that help?
It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.
Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.
