We should have a party with lashings of ginger beer
We should celebrate, in our very British manner, this victory over a societal problem:
The media-academia complex
You may have seen a BBC News story that reported that half of Britons hold ‘authoritarian populist’ views, perhaps a prelude to the rise of a British Donald Trump. It was covered on the Today Programme and given a long, uncritical article on the BBC News website.
But the paper wasn't very good.
As the Edinburgh schools show, PFI is a rather good idea
There're most certainly possible arguments to make against the Private Finance Initiative: there's more than a suspicion that it was used to allow large amounts of spending without having to trouble the government books with it for example. And yet there's still an obvious value to it:
Here's why we're so in favour of a carbon tax
Every time we mention climate change we get a certain amount of stick from people who insist that it's not a thing, or that catastrophic isn't, or that the temperature numbers have been fiddled and so on. All of which rather means that we've not managed to get across our point and why, thus, we argue for a carbon tax.
Even the supposedly self-sufficient seem to be trading
A quite lovely little piece about that trend for people trying to be self-sufficient in the 60s and 70s. Quite why people thought they should do this we think we know. Nostalgia really, coupled with very rose tinted glasses. The people who actually had, properly, lived as peasants fled for the cities as soon as they could scrape up the three groats to do so.
We're afraid that we find this very amusing indeed
Others might be more disturbed than we are but we rather expect this sort of thing to be happening and thus the amusement at seeing the numbers so proudly displayed upon the web.
We don't like to say we told you so but we told you so
Actually, that headline is a lie. We just love to say "We told you so".
And so it is with our repeated insistence that the vastly high price of British housing is caused by the idiot planning system currently in place: