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A problem for Liz Truss is that Downham Market is becoming a Cambridge commuter town, for first time buyers who have been completely priced out of anywhere closer to Cambridge.

For Islington North, Oddschecker have Labour as the favourites (4/6) with Corbyn at 5/4. In Rochdale, Labour are the favourites (4/7) with Galloway's Workers Party of Britain at 9/4 I find it interesting that the favourite for the number of MPs for Reform is 7 or more (7/4), with 1-2 seats...

If you want to have a flat tax rate for the country, then an income tax might work. If you have an income tax that varies, you will get loads of people registered in areas where the tax rate is low. It will cost money to track where people actually are living. When I was a student, I was in a...

I think its this story: https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/reform-support-farage-russia-poll-3133908 You need to register for more detail. Reuters also reported on the BMG poll.

If its cold enough outside to wear a coat, you will overheat inside if you keep the coat on. If you take the coat off, then valuables in the coat pocket are vulnerable. I stayed in the Frankfurt 25 Hours hotel in March last year. It is in a back street a quarter of a mile from the station. I...

https://x.com/LukeTryl/status/1806661607386124399 is a tweet from Luke Tryl of the More In Common pollsters with these histograms of voting intention by alcoholic drink preference. They previously had a table with the voting intention by preference by preferred biscuit voting intention...

Zipped coat pockets are good, so stuff doesn't fall out when you take the coat off, but I wouldn't use them for valuables, as you are likely to take the coat off, and then it could be nicked. For my passport, I find the zipped security pocket in Rohan trousers the best. They aren't cheap at...

https://inglesp.github.io/apogee/ has a table with the predictions of the winner at each constituency from these sources: Britain Predicts (New Statesman) (22 June) The Economist (26 June) Electoral Calculus (26 June) Focaldata (24 June) The FT (25 June) Ipsos (18 June) More in Common (19 June)...

seat61.com says https://europe.tranzer.com/ticket-product/73 lets you buy a Deutschland €49 ticket for only one month, where you can pay with a credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, so you don't need a German bank account. Mark Smith wrote: "I have not used it myself so feedback would be...

There is a video of the 43 run over at https://x.com/CountyChamp/status/1805925704548089975

He should have known better. Kevin Craig's LinkedIn profile says he has "25 years in PR, Crisis, Public Affairs". He is the CEO of a Public Relations and Communications Services company. The criminal offence would be section 42 of the Gambling Act 2005 This article from a law professor says...

Craig Williams has followed up with another post on twitter. This is a transcript from the beginning He shows showing no more contrition than before. If he wants to apologise, start with that, not that a pitch for people to still vote for him. Its not his decision on whether he committed an...

On Twitter, David Allen Green wrote:

A German colleague was grumbling about having dull politicians in charge. Dull sounds great to me. The job is prime minister, not a dinner party guest.

Private healthcare would not be able to replicate the NHS service for the price they would get for a voucher. They could triage queries so fewer queries would end up in front of a GP. For example, an AI chatbot could send you a PDF leaflet, there could be video calls to a nurse practitioner or...

Page 9 of the The Reform Party "Contract" says: They can remove waiting lists by giving you a voucher for private GP treatment after 3 days. If that voucher doesn't pay for the cost of treatment, then you would need to top up with your own money. They also have to fund the lost tax from...

https://www.pentagon-group.co.uk/vauxhall/new-car-offers/astra-electric/vauxhall-astra-electric-design-hatchback has a brand new Vauxhall Astra Electric Design Hatchback for £20,450 cash. The MRRP is £37,995 (!) There are some stats on it at...

For Ely and East Cambridgeshire. In 2019 the constituency was called South East Cambridgeshire. Lucy Frazer (Conservative) had a majority of 11490 to the Lib Dems, with Labour a distant 3rd. Sky links to a spreadsheet that estimates that the boundary changes mean that the Conservative majority...

One of the positives of having new housing developments is that there is section 106 money to fund infrastructure like this. It needs to be managed properly, so the money is spent where it really improves cycling safety, rather than having a quarter mile of a cycling motorway near a new...

There are different types of cyclist, and one route won't be the best for all of them. The downside with a segregated route next to a road is that you still have conflicts at the junctions, you get the noise from the traffic, and when its wet, the cyclists still get coated in the spray from the...