His is not a lone voice.

It needs a better word to capture the subgenre. Grimdark is very good for that gritty, bloody subset of fantasy, and LitRPG captures another. A term for the lighter, comic adventurous rogues-and-scrapes fantasy may be useful.

Well said.

Yes. The hostile environment was an awful Tory policy. We need to treat people like human beings or we lose our own humanity.

LGR brings with it the possibility of more sensible Local Plans, because responsibility will sit with larger unitaries. It will mean inland towns will be under greater pressure to develop, and that's going to be interesting.

Part of the problem is each district getting housing targets. This leads to the absurdity of Boston, mostly in a flood zone, having a target for homes whilst East Lindsey explicitly prevents new market housing in its coastal flood zone (38% of the district).

It's all marketing. I suppose they thought that would appeal to readers who like fantasy but not the romantic aspects? A bit like calling sf anti-factual science: I can't see it sticking.

Nostalgia: things were better for people when they were young enough to have their parents worry about budgeting and adulting, and Blue Peter was their main news source.

Obviously the government should stop using it. And the first and most obvious step is to ensure nothing they post there is exclusive.

In East Lindsey we have 38,000 static caravans, and similar problems knowing the year-round unauthorised population. Recent enforcement work has helped a bit. Caravan laws haven't changed since the 60s!

They don't run the council, not even close.

Once, there was an internet we could use to get in touch with almost anyone. We're going to look back on those days with nostalgia. Time to dust off cards and go back to in-person networking.

Reeves is hinting at a pivot to more leftwing policies:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLit...

There's a strong cohort of nimby green supporters: they don't want industrialisation near them, and they associate that with net zero. People who oppose pylons, massive solar projects on farmland, carbon capture, etc.

What strikes me about demand mapping is the chicken and egg dilemma: people will go where there are services, services set up where people are. But we need to set up new towns to reach 1.5m homes, and they will need all kinds of infrastructure and services.