They call this time of year the silly season with good cause, slow news days produce some bizarre stories.

This classic from the Daily Telegraph though highlights what I feel is a serious issue.

How on earth can there be hideous tower block flats in Pimlico which are Listed Buildings? How are millions of pounds of our money wasted on follies such as the Dome or Holyrood (£414m) and yet the same Emperor's New Clothes type people declare that this building is bad?

I'll bet it's nowhere near as "energy greedy" as a shoddy set of council flats with their paper-thin walls and poorly insulated flat roofs. Nor is it likely to incur the £409,000 annual cost of maintaining the hideous Gulag block which houses the Scottish "Parliament".