Scotland has been gradually rolling out rail electrification over the past fifteen years. A quiet success story. https://www.railengineer.co.uk/electrifying-scotland/ (View Post)

Lib Dems didn't owe the Conservatives any favours, given the way that party treated them in coalition. (View Post)

In principle MRP works on probabilities for each constituency where there's a big range of likely outcomes for each. So the MRP might calculate constituencies A, C and E will go for party X and … (View Post)

As people are talking about Bluesky thought I might share this thread about SS Windrush and its previous history in Nazi Germany for no particular reason than I think it's interesting. https://b… (View Post)

A useful definition of terrorism has to include violent intent I think. If you make it a catch-all for association with any kind of criminal activity you end up banning all political campaigns where … (View Post)