Birthplace of Ramsay MacDonald, a new bridge to the beach, Duffus Castle, fighter jets, decent ice cream, bottlenose dolphins. What more could you want. (View Post)

If healthy life expectancy increases then we can (in theory) escape that problem. But as I've pointed out umpteen times, health costs in the UK are rising astonishingly quickly even after adjust… (View Post)

The station facade is fine, it was an adjacent building that went down.. They are doing some tests on the internal structure but it looks like we've been lucky - rumour is it got very close to t… (View Post)

I know, I know. But there isn't much of an incentive to do these things while fossil fuel consumers are bailed out every time there is a crisis. We spent £40 billion on reducing energy bills in … (View Post)

It's easier to waffle on about North Sea revenues than confront the fact that transitioning to renewables protects us from stuff like this. It's a coping mechanism for those struggling to a… (View Post)