They're discounting the future value of investment spending by making the claim that it's impossible if day-to-day spending is insufficient. If that link in the argument fails then the whol… (View Post)

Vote early, regret early. (View Post)

In one of the Mars Trilogy books there's an amusing passage where some kids play a game of diverting one of their reluctant scientist-become-teachers from the lesson by getting them to answer a … (View Post)

There's something a bit odd about this story. Something missing. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/29/petition-elite-london-gym-spider-man-tom-holland-trained The East London Gymnasti… (View Post)

Why would they announce something like this ahead of the main budget? Even if we accept that it's necessary, it comes under the heading of "regrettable, but necessary." So why give it … (View Post)