Aberdeen is heading for a faceplant either way, alas, because the national ability to develop new industries is very close to zero, and all the attention is on legacy industry rather than developing … (View Post)

There is zero risk of a Venus-style runaway greenhouse effect. Earth is simply too far away from the Sun. But, in general, the scientists have been cautious about highlighting low probability high im… (View Post)

One of the pollsters did point out that respondents to the poll might have been giving their past vote for the 2024 Mayoral election, rather than the GE, and thus the polls would have been downweight… (View Post)

The significant part of the Aberdeen South vote is not the specifics of the message that won over the voters in that particular constituency, but that the voters were willing to vote for the Tories a… (View Post)

Very impressive wins by Andy Burnham and the Oil & Gas party. It leaves the Lib Dems as the only main opposition party in England not to have won a by-election in this Parliament. Whatever happen… (View Post)