It’s worth considering the effect of Lottery money on many, many small community projects. One sad thing is the tendency, as time goes by, for Lottery money to be spent on bigger projects. Building a… (View Post)

That’s how pensions work, at the moment… (View Post)

That certainly has many features of the complex plan Yamamoto drew up for Midway. 1) it depends on opponents just sitting there and letting it happen. And walking into the trap(s) 2) it depends on ev… (View Post)

Transaction taxes are always a bad idea. Unless your idea is to stop transactions. (View Post)

1) And why hasn’t the planning system been reformed so that no-hope litigation can’t hold up projects for decades? 2) why not a British DARPA? 3) a partially reusable space launch vehicle was develop… (View Post)