Here's how solar and wind farms work. They generate a lot more power than the National Grid can cope with, while owners refuse to pay for upgraded connectivity and laugh all the way to the bank. Blam… (View Post)

The Scottish government could have opened its own datacentres to host gov.scot, then sell the remaining capacity. This is basically how Amazon cloud started. This would boost Scottish jobs, the Scott… (View Post)

Whitehall won't, as you say, but the Scottish government might have done. Perhaps they are all too young to remember IBM Greenock. (View Post)

Would it be safer to close the House of Commons bars or its car park? (View Post)

It used to be that every senior telly copper had a bottle of whisky and two glasses in his desk drawer. (View Post)