Apparently Starmer has today promised 150 new artillery pieces for Ukraine - the first to be made in the UK for 20 years. Ah, these are artillery barrels. To be made by Sheffield Forgemasters - remem… (View Post)

This is one of the 90 or so seats in which Reform finished second to Labour that are often inked in as likely Reform gains from Labour at the next election, should Labour continue to struggle, the To… (View Post)

I just received Krugman's latest missive, in which he says this: "For a nation’s balance of payments always balances. That is (with some slight technical adjustments), Trade balance + Net inflow… (View Post)

Really interesting that this is the one polling result that shows a strong correlation between the answers from Tory and Reform voters. It suggests that opposing the current Labour government effecti… (View Post)

The annual anomaly last year went above +1.5C, but the annual anomaly bounces up and down around the mean, due to random factors, so the long-term mean anomaly at this time is probably +1.3C. The wor… (View Post)