If GDP per capita (even with PPP) were a good measure of human welfare then people in the US wouldn't be celebrating the assassination of a US healthcare CEO, or spending several days filling out the… (View Post)

That's just all the small boats people signing it ;) (View Post)

Agree. It's just a continual frustration of mine when people in the central belt talk about the rest of the country as if it's all just teuchters and tweed. (View Post)

Appreciate that but farmers even in the most rural parts of the country only represent a small proportion of the electorate. More people are farmer-adjacent, but even in Aberdeenshire manufacturing i… (View Post)

I have quite the firm view that British contractors/government should never have a role in anything new, and we should always buy off the shelf from abroad. So, the public realm and cycle lanes = the… (View Post)