I think I could probably also get a few of you on board with "golf should count as a capital crime"?
"the need for HS2 is so great that it is imperative we bulldoze Amersham"
EVEN NOW PRO-HOUSING CAMPAIGNERS ARE IN MY MENTIONS ACCEPTING THE NEED TO BULLDOZE AN EXISTING TOWN, GUYS THIS DOES NOT ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE
We can do that with confiscations and, in extreme cases, custodial sentences. We don't need to punish the poor, innocent houses for their owners' wayward views
NEWSLETTER! This week: some half-formed thoughts on a half-formed identity, the case for more crowded cities, and finally, a new bit of tube jonn.substack.com/p/england-my-e…
This is a very back-of-an-envelope way of doing this, but: here's how Labour leaders have done at the various key electoral metrics... jonn.substack.com/p/statisticall…
One thing I think is unhealthy about the Labour party's forever war is that it's baked in that there's always a chunk of the left that's rooting for the leader to fail because it proves them *right*. This feels like it may, on balance, be a bad thing.
But I only started paying proper attention c2014. How much was this true before then?
basically, how much is this Corbyn, how much is this Twitter, and how much has this just been always true only I wasn't looking before?