There’s a minority thing in Argentina of constructing elaborate hatred of the U.K. over the Falklands war. See the bizarre stuff about an aircraft carrier really being sunk and secretly replaced. Als… (View Post)

If I lied about my relationship with a convicted criminal when asked, as part of a job application, I wouldn’t get a payoff. He was binned for cause. It’s only in #NU10K world that such a payoff is j… (View Post)

The UK demonstrated (kinda) that UK scientists could build a multistager. The U.K. and US programs then merged - American design use U.K. features. This really annoyed the French, because we got a de… (View Post)

I suggest you talk to the several people in the industry, who are in this conversation. We are permanent shutting down wells that have plenty of gas and oil in the. We are not drilling any new wells.… (View Post)

Ahem Something to understand about China - in the post communist carve up, oligarchs took over various sectors. It’s not a command economy in the sense of total centralisation. So you have the Coal O… (View Post)