My feeling is that the sort of advances that rcs1000 talks about pair nicely with things like rewilding, and should be capable of producing a very significant net biodiversity gain. Ensuring that tha… (View Post)

And of course, the people inclined to stand for them are likely to be utterly hopeless at micromanagement, and would find it impossible to issue any form of central diktat. They're just not cut out f… (View Post)

The nature of the shadow cabinet is a result of the unusual pattern of the past couple of parliaments. Rather than a slow climb to power, Labour lost seats at the last election. And candidate selecti… (View Post)

This is the equivalent chart for the UK in December 2023: blue is gas, green is wind, grey is nuclear (from https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/historical) (View Post)

Sunak's still going really hard on the anti-London stuff. Not sure that's going to work for him any better today than it did last Thursday. (View Post)