If anyone wants a ten minute primer on the defence spending argument, Jack Watling lays it out exceptionally clearly at the beginning of WATO. The points about the hidden run down of the forces (beyo… (View Post)

It's a hard case. Like algarkirk, I have very little sympathy with the defendants. What seriously troubles me is the twisting into pretzels of the legal system to achieve the conviction. A justi… (View Post)

Grave of the Fireflies. (View Post)

I hadn't noticed this detail. few will appreciate how grimly funny it is that this judge both issued a gagging order so that the filton 4 could not explain their motivation to the jury, and then… (View Post)

If we had binned the pointless and expensive boondoggle of CCS, and split the money between grid upgrades, and subsidies to the lower cost battery and EV manufacturers to set up here, we might be a l… (View Post)