Moscow is the centre of the Russian Empire that stays rich by extracting wealth from the rest of Russia. It’s entirely unsurprising that it appears wealthy - it is! Meanwhile vast swathes of Russia d… (View Post)

We appear to have spent something like 160% of the cost of the full HS2 to get 20% of the benefit. The bits of the network that were dropped were actually the cheapest parts to build, having vastly o… (View Post)

“Caused by renewable energy” is disingenuous & simplistic. This stuff is perfectly solvable - technologies exist today to compensate for the lack of reactive power offered by solar & wind inv… (View Post)

Because a number of women were being prosecuted for procuring abortions for themselves during the pandemic & many female MPs were surprised to discover that abortion is still illegal in the UK &a… (View Post)

It’s possible that, had the conventional power plants done the job they were being paid for, the grid fluctuations might have been kept small enough that the solar generators would not have dropped o… (View Post)