A relative runs a building business - largish domestic stuff. He was early into the modernised style of building - properly engineered stuff, trained workforce, no cash in hand. In the early 2000s he… (View Post)

a Starmer isn’t right wing. Like Michael Portaloo, before him, he is cosplaying right wing. And like Portaloo, this manages to piss off everyone. It’s the fakeness…. (View Post)

Solar cells have already fallen in price so far as to ruin the economics of various long distance transmission schemes. The bit that costs money is the power electronics - but that is scaled by the o… (View Post)

Shouting “Death!” to whatever enemy is only acceptable when Bernard Hill does it, just before leading a cavalry charge. Otherwise is it gauche, unpleasant and a bit furrin, really. Peak Britishness -… (View Post)

The problem they had was a structural deficit. The response was *reduce the rate of increase of government spending* to above inflation, but below the rate of increase in GDP. Spending was never actu… (View Post)