My regular walkabouts in different parts of the Borough bring home the damage Council policies are doing to our environment and urban fabric. Everywhere I go there is the clutter of temporary yellow diversion signs and red closure signs. The roads are… read more
Great news. The Bank of England has reviewed its money policy over lockdown and the period 2020 to 2022. It has concluded it worked well against a very difficult background. It thinks it can repeat its successful Quantitative easing operations in the … read more
I joined the Christians at the Catholic Church on Good Friday for hot cross buns and conversation. We followed the Cross to the Marketplace and Peach Place, where music and acting brought the story of the crucifixion to Wokingham. We then went to a sh… read more
The nationalised water industry had a bad record, putting sewage into rivers and the sea. It spent too little on expanding pipe capacity and on replacing old and damaged pipes, as the costs fell on taxpayers. Water lost out in many a public spending … read more
There are several strong arguments against the nationalised model for providing commercial services like phones,water,electricity and gas as we used to suffer. 1. These services never had sufficient priority in public spending to access sufficient ca… read more