Monthly Archives: December 2007

Today I heard on the radio that mortgage advances have fallen 44% compared with the same period last year. Its a fitting epitaph to this governments woeful misunderstanding of the housing market, and the folly of their current policy which will not succeed in tackling the problem of providing more people with better homes that [...]

2008 message Today we are promised from Jack Straw that the government will do better in 2008, whilst the Prime Minister tells us he can carry through the changes the UK needs. Both senior politicians are long on words to meet the public mood, but short on ideas to sort out the mess Gordon Browns [...]

I am glad there is to be a Parliamentary investigation into the state of our water supply and flood defences. Some say we need it to deal with the consequences of global warming. The predictions of climate change theorists tell us that we will need to store more water for drinking and other uses during [...]

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