Nice photo too! But - as a public water dispenser - it really must have been a traffic-blocker in the main crossroads at Oxford before it got carted off by the relevant Harcourt gentry to Nuneham Cou… (View Post)

Carfax conduit? (View Post)

It depends on the mineral. Oil (and gas?) is IIRC a state good presumably because of Churchill and the Navy needing it for strategic reasons in the great modernization of the RN c. 1910 onwards. Coal… (View Post)

Smoot-Hawley, USA 1930? But given what happened, it certainly wouldn't affect your argument. (View Post)

Quite wrong. Why do you think the big firms only do fracking in the UK with small spinoff firms? So they don't have to clean up the mess, as the public purse inevitably will, given the bitty and brok… (View Post)