Prisons are an expensive way of making bad people worse (View Post)

The EU is protectionist but the tariff regime towards developing countries isn't substantially different from the one operated by the UK for example. ie external trading barriers are similar eve… (View Post)

. Yes, on this particular result Labour and Conservatives have gained equally since the locals when they were on a notionally equal low score. If we read anything into it all, it's that Reform w… (View Post)

I agree with this, although I believe new gas turbines have got a lot more expensive, as have other electric generation technologies, so building new gas power stations "just in case" is lo… (View Post)

. Which raises the interesting possibility, which we have touched on in the past couple of days, that Labour might benefit from a Reform collapse, and not the Conservatives as widely assumed, includi… (View Post)