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:
There's some recycling which just shouldn't be done
This is not how people generally think of it these days but it is nonetheless true. Not all recycling that can be done should be done
Polly Toynbee's half a good idea
We're not generally known for praising Polly Toynbee around here but when she gets something right it's worth mentioning it. Actually, it's especially worth mentioning when Polly gets something right given its rarity. So, we agree, this is half a good idea:
It's necessary to understand the details when discussing the steel industry
Of course, it's necessary to understand the details when discussing anything at all as well. Which is precisely what Gareth Stace does not do here. Stace being the head of UK Steel, the industry association.