I believe the US shale oil and gas boom is quite time limited. Because the fuel is extracted under pressure you get the most production at the start and it begins to tail off immediately. After a whi… (View Post)

Which works until they get released, which will happen one day for all but a tiny part of the prison population. Keeping criminals away from the public isn't the purpose for over 99% of the pris… (View Post)

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)