Every single budget has assumed that fuel duty would be going up in the future, and it never has. The "rules" are easily swerved. Happily, we have institutions like the OBR and IFS who, whi… (View Post)

The key thing to understand is that the damage caused by carbon emissions rises exponentially. Even if we miss these targets, every additional tonne of carbon we emit makes things more and more worse… (View Post)

I think they came much earlier with the initial attempt at conquest. They got as far as Cawdor. And then there is the mystery of Mons Graupius. Always on the look out for something unusual when I… (View Post)

More column B, I believe. The Antonine Wall came later as a kind of force projection when the raids from Caledonia continued even after Hadrian's was built. (View Post)

Well, that's why twitter is still the most important platform. No other place sets the agenda to the same extent, except perhaps reddit. (View Post)