Neither, in that sense, did Truss. Like Truss, she is causing government borrowing to get more expensive. Because the markets (and foreign buyers of UK Government bonds) do not see a commitment to an… (View Post)

Install Signal https://signal.org/ It’s WhatsApp without Suckerberg and better security. The code is open source - you can even setup your own server, compile your own versions of the apps and have a… (View Post)

One pub in Wiltshire used to run a minibus home for Friday and Saturday night. Left just after closing. Book in advance, your drop off point added to the route. The interesting bit for self driving i… (View Post)

In WWII, the surface Royal Navy chased/harried the German surface navy to extinction, pretty much on their own. They comprehensively defeated the Italian surface navy as well (View Post)

In a functioning housing market, something like 10% of properties are empty at any one time. The shit ones are unrentable/unsellable. It’s so long since we had a decent housing market that people hav… (View Post)