Monbiot is talking a lot of bollocks here. (Not all bollocks, but a lot of it is bollocks.) There is an established methodology for cost:benefit analyses. It's not particularly secret and if Mon… (View Post)

It is astonishingly hard to come up with things you can do on the railway to improve connectivity. The railways are pretty much full, and planned to within an inch of their lives. All the obvious and… (View Post)

Oh, and by the way, Network Rail is a large and Byzantine organisation. "Talked to Network Rail" might be true, and "Network Rail don't know about it" might also be true. It&… (View Post)

Yes, there were lots of other things which happened which coincided with productivity stalling. The iphone, for one. Politicalbetting.com, for another. (View Post)

Except it doesn't really work. Raising taxes in wealth drives away wealth. Raising taxes in income drives away work. Raising taxes on spending drives down spending. There's only so much mon… (View Post)