Interesting story in the Times. Explosives could deliver northern boom via cheaper Pennines tunnel Start-up says Scandinavian tunnelling methods could cut the cost of a proposed dual carriageway conn… (View Post)

What does @Richard_Tyndall make of the geological claims about similarity to Norway ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c621m9l1qr1o ..Future Works said about 20,000 vehicles currently travel acros… (View Post)

I'd guess it depends how many locals dislike Farage enough to make the effort to register a vote against him. A low turnout is likely; if (for example) Farage backers are twice as likely to vote… (View Post)

It's a genuinely difficult one to predict. While joke candidates very rarely indeed get a significant vote, they aren\t usually the main challenger and getting national publicity. It's not … (View Post)

Spurious correlation of the day. The winner of every Round of 16 game so far has been the country with the highest unemployment rate for men aged 15-24 https://x.com/F_Edits/status/2074559667825516609 (View Post)