@DavidL recommended to me, some years ago, what turned out to be a memorable SF novel set in a Glaswegian solicitors' (the old kind) where part of the plot revolved around just the sort of filing sys… (View Post)

It used to have its own power stations, with water transport and all. Now converted to modern art galleries. So of course it needs subsidised energy. (View Post)

Hanged, not just arrested ... (View Post)

Mmm. Well, there's the possible examples of the aluminium smelters at Fort William and (formerly) also Kinlochleven linked to their own private hydropower generation systems, reservoirs, etc. There w… (View Post)

Oh, yes. To encourage cheaper electricity in London and the SE without having to renew nasty power stations where the most important folk/voters live. Edit: Else they'd have to pay for transmission m… (View Post)