Apologies for the unne­ces­sary delay, dear readers! I’ll be using this lovely holiday (when I’m not eating, sleeping or playing on my Wii Fit — so much fun! So much muscle pain!) to produce last week’s poll-winning consulta­tion — Ecotowns in the UK!

As a bonus, I’ll also be doing a very short trans­la­tion of the latest Department for Work and Pensions effort, which has caused a lot of anger by suggesting that state loans should accu­mu­late interest as one option to save money.

The consulta­tion in ques­tion is actu­ally really short. However it’s still pretty densely worded, and I’m sure we can do better than that!

Happy Christmas everyone.