Last week’s hike in interest rates brings the Bank of England base rate back to historically normal levels. But for millions of homeowners, it heralds significant increases in the cost of owning a home. We have all got used to the last 15 years of super low interest rates.
The argument on climate change seems to have run its course. There are a few flat-earthers who still maintain that climate change isn’t man-made – or at least man accelerated – but even most of them agree that we ought to respect our planet better.
Further to reading the Appeal Decision, I have written to the Secretary of State for Levelling UP, The Rt. Hon. Michael Gove and copied in the Minister of State for Housing and Planning with my concerns in relation to the approval of this planning application. The Letter is attached below.
The district elections are behind us. I won’t pretend it wasn’t a bad night for my party. Our losses were higher than expected, as were Labour’s gains. But in a trend defying night here in Wyre Forest, the district council went back to Conservative control.
It’s a big week! For the first time in 70 years in we have a coronation. As ever, we in Britain do these things rather well. It is expected that the economic benefit to the UK will surpass £3 billion in coronation related activities – mainly street parties and drinking.
The spectacle of strikes is becoming more and more frequent. Having thought the nurses strikes had come to end with the RCN accepting the government’s offer, a second vote, from a different union, has rejected the offer. More strikes for nurses. Teachers, university lecturers, junior doctors.
