Neither side has a theory of victory right now. But simultaneously, losing is seen as unacceptable to both - the Ukrainians (rightly) fear what Russian dominance would bring to their land & Putin… (View Post)

The solution to Ajax’s manifest issues is simple: buy a fleet of CV90s. It will almost certainly be cheaper over the lifetime of the system to do that than to a) redesign Ajax to not deafen everyone … (View Post)

NB. I think this article in today’s Guardian actually points to many of the UK’s problems today: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/02/i-wish-i-could-say-i-kept-my-cool-my-maddening-experienc… (View Post)

The story is that the OBR doesn’t really have an IT department at all & the OBR website is effectively an off the shelf Wordpress job (the kind of thing that a small web services outfit would kno… (View Post)

The problem the US has is twofold & both of them spring from the fact that they spend ~5% of GDP purely on running their insane healthcare system. Firstly that 5% of GDP is all funnelled through … (View Post)