I made my first political projection and indeed my first political bet around that age. I bet £50 that the first Gulf War would take less than a year against a school friend who was sure it would las… (View Post)

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)