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The green belt is NOT a protection for beautiful countryside it is an essentially arbitrary limit on development land supply - an urban growth boundary.And removing it doesn't end protection

The issue here isn't that value of electronic medical records but whose records they are...government is still trapped in a world of centralised databases when a more distributed solution is

This is a bit of a circular argument and somewhat misdefines the term "benefit dependency". As I've observed before I totally get the heart-on-sleeve "something should be done" position but,

I'll be honest about Britain. Firstly we're not remotely overcrowded. It may feel that way if your life revolves around inner London and especially so if you're cooped up in

So a set of thoughts about urban transport - partly in light of people's preferences, partly a "post-corona" take and partly a continuation of my view that transport planning isn't

Seems to me that the North's economic issues stem primarily from the nature of the regions leaders - using the term in its widest sense. In many struggling Northern places,

It really isn't that complicated. This @LGAcomms thread is awfulhttps://twitter.com/LGAcomms/status/1253646831801774080?s=19 Here's the central excuse - staff absencehttps://twitter.com/LGAcomms/status/1253646838802059265?s=19 So Councils can

A few observations about our - that's non-Muslim Brits - attitudes to Islam. 1/ There is a huge degree of ignorance about what Muslims believe and this is not helped