Despite claims that “fracking” would be uneconomic below oil price “x”, the industry has proved to be rather resilient. In addition Venezuelan oil requires quite of effort (in the main) to extract. I… (View Post)

Or “pierce the veil” of the gig economy. Uber is an employer. Like Deliveroo and others, it uses this system of layering to support illegal employment practises, without legal liability. Note that th… (View Post)

"When Mike Smithson first asked me to start editing political betting he made it very clear that I would be privy to embargoed polling and I shouldn’t bet based on those polls until they were pu… (View Post)

You surely wouldn’t want Starmer to answer a question on morality, before the Supreme Court (to whom he outsourced his beliefs) rules? (View Post)

The Realist position is that Ukraine should have accepted being defeated by Russia at the start. Day 3 of the SMO. Zelensky could have been a celebrity on the fringe meetings at the edge of internati… (View Post)