Becoming?

I saw this amazing waste of money a couple of months ago. Don't get me wrong, I am for high speed rail, but putting it into a cut and cover tunnel through the home counties is a disaster.

Don't forget that London has a child poverty rate of 38%. So, it is an urban economy that does not work for many people.

The Northern cities are much better than the were 30 or 40 years ago. Going from being the world's biggest port or from being the cotton capital to nothing is a big shift. London lost as many manufacturing jobs per capita, but was lucky in financial services. You have to work with what you can

No mention of the 40 years of investment by European Structural Funds in the Northern cities from 1975 to 2020. Merseyside was turned round by intelligent use of Objective 1 with a focus on inclusive regeneration.

I completely agree. I love trams but the idea that they are a major driver for growth is nonsense. Somewhere like Copenhagen which for 50 years has ensured that employers are located near metro and tram stops along the axis of the finger plan. That makes a difference. But you need the whole picture.

It is not because we have a history syllabus that explains the British empire in an honest way. Nor do we have an active integration policy. Maybe having the English language explains something and the rest is just luck?

South Londoners would come North, but the other way round?

Larry, maybe individual cities should become self sufficient in food and energy. Start with London. Maybe each borough, or even each neighbourhood. Or why not streets and individual houses. What scale does this work at?

Awful in the evening. Most shops are closed and it is freezing. Not to mention last minute cancellations.

He really thinks decimated means obliterated doesn't he? Such a mastery of words. Decimated might be about right. 9/10 to go.

What percent of people still wear a watch?

This is the point I am making. Voting should be linked to residency, not citizenship. When you pay for a state, you should have the right to determine how you are governed. Remember the battle cry of the American revolution

5 years in most of EU.

I agree that you should be allowed to vote where you pay your taxes. My point is that if you or I no longer live in the UK why do we get a vote and a Pole or German who pays taxes to the UK does not.

They have had secure digital voting for more than 20 years. It is far more secure than UK's in-person voting. Forms of control could be present in all forms of voting. But the ability to change your digital vote makes it more unlikely. Maximising turnout should be a basic principle of democracy.

Half of Estonians vote digitally. Most in-person voting is by old people. You can change your vote until election day. This is the future, not banning postal voting.

Tell them to visit E-Estonia

Should they even be allowed to vote? No representation without taxation.

BBC reporting huge shortages in people with skills to do ultrasounds. The government says it can fix it but it will take a while. Imagine having to fix every specific skill shortage for the rest of time when you could simply join the European single market...

First we abandon them militarily, then we just abandon them. So much for International Development. Now International Abandonment

You are such an outcomes/results (aka better services) person rather than an inputs/outputs (budget/no of trains) type.

Not by letting the US use our bases. Learn to spell you're...

Labour are so lost. This is what governing without principles looks like

Our interest was not to have this war. Not to support the US by lending them runways for bombing Iranian cities

Pic Son Nom in the French Alps

The idea that UK government can plan migration is for the birds. Just rejoin the single market.

The reduction in net migration will not be good for the economy.

They cannot have all the bunkum about holy oil and divine right while being atheist or agnostic. This is William towing the family line.

I suspect some of the British Steel closures were the result. Shotton on Deeside closed in 1980 with 6500 redundancies. The largest steel closure in Western Europe at the time