Actually, there were severe restrictions in the UK. I am not au fait with the details, but there were some attempts to stop or claw back excess profits in the Great War and in WW2. Armaments Proftis … (View Post)

Talking about bombs, this fun piece has just come up on the Graun in re the remaster of Dark Star: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/24/john-carpenter-brian-narelle-interview-dark-star-alien-… (View Post)

Phenol? Edit: or ortho-hydroxyphenylamine? There's an unclear blue blob ... The office is unbelievably tidy and paper- and book-free compared to those of my teachers. It must be the impact of IT - in… (View Post)

It did give the usual suspects on PB a lot of aerobic exercise. (View Post)

You are perhaps forgetting the inherent flexibility of that situation - the sheep meat could be retained in a crisis over imported food and form a larger proportion of UK diet, without being so depen… (View Post)