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After looking at the figures for London property prices discussed below, I think it is plain that property prices in London are completely out of control, and the government are failing to do their job when it comes to providing affordable housing for the general population. Why? Incompetence? Selfishness? Do they want us to move […]
Or, How to Waste Your Time Each year, London boasts ‘Open House Day’ in which various public and private buildings open their doors for the general public to go in and have a look around. The ‘Day’ is in fact normally two or three days long, after the sunshine and the peak of the tourist […]
I got a new debit card from my bank the other day, and put it in my wallet beside my Oyster card, which is an advance-paid card used like a season ticket in London to pay for public transport (bus, rail and tube journeys). Next time I hopped on a bus and touched my wallet […]
Now that I’m getting older, I’ve started to notice that the people who were famous when I was a child, teenager, and young adult, are starting to die off in quite dramatic numbers. These are the people who provided a wider context and structure to my life in this world, and now they are leaving… […]
In a word, nope. Back in 1975 when Britain was holding its referendum on membership of the European “Common Market”, I must admit I was in favour of the idea of joining. I realized the government was talking only about the Common Market and avoiding talking about the idea of a Federal European Super-State because […]