The Taiwanese model was built on luck, an economically enlightened government which subsidised their nascent chip industry, and being a very cheap place (less than a fifth of the US per capita GDP) w… (View Post)

Streeting has resigned from the cabinet and is calling for Starmer to be replaced. Why on earth shouldn't he set out alternative policy ideas ? It is - yet again - the height of entitled arrogan… (View Post)

Though, of course, Europe has some of the potential to do that. And a bit more of it, were we in the EU. (View Post)

. "And that's my case for persisting with Brexit and voting for Farage." Compelling. (View Post)

European (and Japanese) precision engineering are still indispensable moats underpinning US and Asian tech. What that means over the next decade is not yet clear. The rest if your push is pretty well… (View Post)