Numbers on nuclear never add up. The cost of one nuclear power station (ca £40 billion) generating a steady 3GW is close to total planned investments in offshore wind providing up to 70GW intermitten… (View Post)

Automatic as long as you claim your pension. My wife missed out previously although eligible because she worked past retirement age. (View Post)

. I agree and it raises the question of which recent chancellor has been better. If Reeves is as bad as people here make out, the previous ones should have been a lot better. (View Post)

That should have been obvious since Trump's 2019 insurrection and either people didn't notice or didn't care. (View Post)

A counterintuitive consequence of the Boxer Rebellion was that it effectively stopped efforts by Western powers to colonise China. Which you might not expect given it was such a complete fiasco for t… (View Post)