This might sound weird, but I think the great financial crash of 2008 has a branding problem. 9/11 and the Covid pandemic have simple, universally used names, in the same way that the Wall Street Cra… (View Post)

There's quite a lot of good evidence that good transport infrastructure is key for providing the right conditions to allow an economy to flourish. Improving the road and rail infrastructure across th… (View Post)

My opinion of Musk was decided by the Thai cave rescue. The pettiness and childishness of calling the lead caver a paedo for declining Musk's offer of a "rescue pod" told me all I needed to… (View Post)

Is not the causality likely to be the other way round, to an extent? People with MAGA views will find CNN and the New York Times intolerable and vice versa. (View Post)

No, that feeling was principally engendered because the war ended when the front line was still almost entirely in France and Belgium. So the Germans could feel that it was a political choice to lose… (View Post)