Thanks for the tip!

They've had plenty of chances before I called in the tough guys.

Interesting. I guess Bristol's seagulls commute inland to Bath to terrorise the tourists.

Knew it. Bet it went on several Focus leaflets. Much good it did them.

The Starmer/Streeting plan for getting NHS waiting lists down: one part extra spending, two parts threats of physical violence.

I think it is more likely there was someone in the Lib Dems who was adept at pushing this issue, who just didn't matter any more after the election...

Ah, I can only imagine the joy of writing frontbench speeches on deterrent in the 2015-19 period.

No, they want weddings where you exchange lanyards rather than rings.

(In Glasman world, on the other hand, progressives want to stop your wife lying back and thinking of England, and they need to do that less.)

Oh yes, it is absolute ‘spend on prevention’ 101, something we’re never great at.

And coming into effect in Scotland very shortly.

It is in the Reform manifesto!

Real boon for brick manufacturers.

Off to try to explain to the myself of this morning why this is actually a very funny post.

The thing I hate about actually-existing hotel taxes is that because they're so micro-level, booking websites can't account for them, so you turn up at your prepaid hotel in bumfuck nowhere with credit cards and a EUR100 bill and they get mad at you for paying them EUR2.10 with those

Absolutely this. About the last thing I am still paying by cash is European tourist taxes.