I sometimes feel like I am going mad.

Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.

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Even then there's no impediment to driving from Cowley Rd to that posh pen shop on High St (presumably parking on Merton St).

Building contractors will typically use a van to get to the site. Vans are unaffected by the congestion charge. It's good news for van drivers who are no longer sat in congestion! That's 3 councillors now who clearly don't understand the policy. Are they ignoramuses or liars?

Utter nonsense. The drive from Didcot to Cowley Rd is completely unaffected by the congestion charge gates.

"Nutpicking" has a longer history. I've traced the origin of the term back to what appears to be its invention in 2006: web.archive.org/web/20060820...

It was Helen Lewis: 'nutpicking'.

Thank you!

In case it's not obvious to anyone, they don't genuinely care about the fire risk. It's just an excuse - they simply don't want it.

Choosing parenthood is choosing to neglect hobbies.

Give people a say over wind turbines or nothing, plenty will opt for nothing. Particularly when they've opted for rural living.

Another quarter not only stayed sane, but positively thrived under an authoritarian lockdown. I think that in itself increased public appetite for heavier-handed government.

Making indoor temperatures vastly more comfortable, and the only trade-off is a urban-localised 1°C temperature increase? I'm sold, get the A/C installed.

Meh. Is flooding a worse crisis than the housing crisis? Oxford has both bad, but the housing crisis is a constant drag on more people all the time.