In another [partial] u-turn, Labour have now announced £750m in funding for a supercomputer at Edinburgh University, reversing the decision last summer to axe the then £800m project. A year wasted. N… (View Post)
Trussonomics was less harmful because it was rapidly reversed. If it had been pushed through it would have been a lot worse - and the Tories wouldn't have won a dozen seats at the GE. (View Post)
Yes. Europe is pretty much alone at this point, with Russia massively out producing it in terms of war material. There's a massive amount of complacency and denial in Europe about our vulnerability. (View Post)
There's also space for sensible changes to regulation of the economy, to make productive business investment easier, and to discourage investment being funnelled into rentier capitalism. Like, FFS, w… (View Post)
Whatever you think of Trump and the GOP, the way that they've managed to change the party of Ronald Reagan from a party of robust, anti-Communist, hawks to one of weak, surrender monkeys, kowtowing t… (View Post)