You’ll know it’s over when Russia has to start shutting off the oil wells - there’s no way back from that (in the short-medium term) IIRC. (View Post)

Weirdly, according to the articles I’ve read, the Ukranian manpower shortage is not to do with a failure of recruitment (although obviously that is an issue, just as it is for the Russians) but the m… (View Post)

Turns out you can use that data for interesting economic studies! IIRC the company used that data (plus other traffic data) to demonstrate that the ”commutable distance” for the north of England was … (View Post)

If this story is actually true Reeves / Starmer really are f*#king useless aren’t they? Burnt a ton of political capital trailing this income tax rise over the last six months & then bottle it at… (View Post)

NB, for all those claiming that leaving the EU has had no impact on the UK because we’ve done about as well in economic growth terms over the last five years or so, a new paper published this month b… (View Post)