We absolutely CAN build enough houses quickly. It's the disastrous slowness of the planning system and bureaucracy, and the concomitant lack of land cleared for building that slows everything do… (View Post)

Wrong on many levels. Trump and Putin aren't seen as remotely comparable. YouGov has Trump as the 4th most popular former politician, with a higher approval rating than Starmer, while Putin come… (View Post)

The NuUSSR still support terrorists of course. During Trump's Presidency, they were bribing Taliban $200,000/US or coalition soldier killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, showing how baseless Trump�… (View Post)

Personalities matter hardly at all to the markets - what matters is having credible policies that take account of economic reality. If the government had those, it wouldn't matter whether the Ch… (View Post)

Yes. Here's a really good article about why Madrid's metro expansion in the 90s cost about a tenth as much per mile as London's Jubilee line extension. https://worksinprogress.co/issue… (View Post)