A Stern environment leading to higher taxes
The time has come to do something about saving the planet. Everyone now agrees and the Stern report has given a global destruction timetable if we do not take action. However, I have a problem with the traditional methods for tackling this issue – taxing people more. The principle of taxing people who pollute seems fine [...]
Kingston youth centres under threat?
The link below is to a Council meeting where they are going to designate the Barnfield and Searchlight youth facilities as being subject to a “Corporate Asset Management Review”. To me that reads: “Let’s examine whether we can flog them off”. Should we really be getting rid of centres or actually putting in place a service that means they [...]
£3.47 billion cash boost for council homes – what will Kingston get?
The fact is that Kingston Housing will not receive much of this additional funding. One of the great problems Kingston faces is the lack of housing available that is of a good enough standard. I have spent a lot of time over the lat few weeks out on our housing estates and talking to people who [...]
Green light for £371 million Surrey road scheme
Perhaps surprisingly, for a Conservative, I am always rather skeptical about new road schemes. I learnt that many of the small ones – New Malden High Street, King Charles Road etc – are usually ill thought out and not those that are designed with the resident in mind. The large ones usually have such a major [...]
Cameron call on teens’ age laws
The interesting aspect of this report is not the issue of the new Trust that Cameron is starting, but the debate he is opening about the equalisation of age related laws. This is the “you can go to war and get married at 16 but you cannot…….etc.” I think the time has come for this to [...]
Pacifists versus Peace
This is a short article on a right wing US website. It is making an interesting case that if peace movements and pacifism were successful how is it that we always end up going to war? Not sure I agree with all of this, but it is interesting site nevertheless. Link to RealClearPolitics – Articles – Pacifists versus [...]
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