Initially, I thought that this was an April Fool from the Department of Transport. I mean, just who exactly thinks that skywriting adverts in a clear blue sky is a sign of social progress? Is Chris Grayling back in charge? Apparently there was a consultation ...
Just because ministers have the power to do something as crass as this is no good reason to actually do it. What next: an agency with 10 people who earn more than the PM to pre-approve the messages and check the spelling: Skyways England? Will there be a series of approved fonts do you think?
I despair. There was I thinking that the government was concentrating on the defeat of COVID-19 when this egregious nonsense emerges. It's not just common or garden everyday nonsense. It's that special Department of Transport nonsense, like motorways without a hard shoulder, and overhead signage that prefers giving moral instruction to saying anything remotely useful about traffic.
I've been reading my neighbours' energy performance certificates. This did not involve snooping or asking intrusive questions as they (if they exist) are all on line. You can check up on your street here. This is an example (not my...
To mark International Poetry Day, here's an unusual bit of Kipling first published in A School History of England (1911). Our England is a garden that is full of stately views, Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues,...
I read that the government's Department of Zero Energy and No Security [DOZENS] is thinking about slapping UK import taxes on Chinese battery EVs. It seems that they are thought to be far too cheap because of subsidies. Fresh from...