A billion a year is a rounding error in our economy. For that investment we could have had a U.K. LEO data constellation, *making a profit* Taiwan is hardly the largest economy on the planet - yet ch… (View Post)

Or we could do what the Chinese *do* Take the investment. Build the infrastructure with joy. Take on the supply & technology chain, piece by piece. End up with parallel data centres, running U.K.… (View Post)

Your regular reminder that we don’t do taking things to production. Instead we sweat the assets to death - see Amstrad. See also the anger among “experts” at Arm “wasting” money on R&D. For £1 bi… (View Post)

a People should also look at the process by which Communism was imposed in Eastern Europe post Second World War. Nearly everywhere, it wasn’t overnight. Taxation, government contracts, nationalisatio… (View Post)

Old thinking I implant all my reports with explosive charges on their carotid arteries. This is combined with RFID. If they stray outside the permitted spaces in working hours, or are made redundant,… (View Post)