Many, many years ago, there was an impassioned column in the Independent, arguing that teenage pregnancy "to get a council house" couldn't be true. Because by adding up the life time benefi… (View Post)

A further wrinkle is the that the RR design is based on stretching the power of a sub-reactor - more power in a similar sized package. This scale up was exactly what the US reactor builders did for t… (View Post)

Citizens of nowhere.... The bit that you are missing is that many of the people in question are first generation immigrants to the UK. Quite a few don't have UK passports. (View Post)

In God We Trust. All Others Bring Evidence. The Victorians worked that out. See the invention of building inspectors, pubic health inspectors etc etc. What happens is that bad drives out the good. Es… (View Post)

9) always gets turned into a childish fight between “Bonfire of regulations” vs “You want Grenfell to happen again” The truth is that the current system doesn’t work. Grenfell would have had the extr… (View Post)