TAFKAR

Radio 4's Today programme this morning has a feature discussing the pros and cons of regional planning )starting around 0855). The Coalition government is agin it, favouring its Localism agenda. Other voices on the programme argue in favour of it, that it will need to be brought back sooner or later. A correspondent states that opposition to regionalism become so ingrained in the Department for Communities and Local Governemnt that staff there have been instructed to use the acronym TAFKAR: "The Areas Formerly Known As Regions". Nuff said!