Hopefully that's just a start to scrapping the whole misbegotten project. Building an absurdly expensive railway from somewhere near central Birmingham without any real links to a desolate part … (View Post)

Edam is a very nice small town even if you aren't obsessed by their cheese (though as you can imagine it figures somewhat obsessively there) and it's a 90 min or so flat cycle ride away fro… (View Post)

The world as a whole may (or may not) benefit from lower energy prices over the next decade. Projecting them is a mug's game - they can be falling for ages, then one crisis in the Middle East, a… (View Post)

FPT: As a good California liberal I hope she has paid substantial reparations to herself and others. (View Post)

No, anybody who is opposed to Trump for being a convicted criminal, sexual predator, etc., was already going to vote for Biden. It's not as if it's much of a secret. And they are not enough… (View Post)