Yep there are two different points here (and to be fair I speak as someone who didn't vote Tory anyway). It is possible that Truss is right and that we do see an improvement before the next elec… (View Post)

Yep I get your point. I just think that we have long since reached the point where we needed to decide that the state can do no more and is, in fact doing too much. I would start by dumping the tripl… (View Post)

Sadly that is a giant ponzi scheme in operation. You simply cannot continue increasing the size of the state as a proportion of GDP in the way you seem to be advocating. That is in no way to support … (View Post)

Bakker is one of my scientific heroes. Challenged conventional orthodoxy in such a way that it was very difficult to argue against him. Proper science. (View Post)

On that score Jurassic Park was out of date before it was even made - in spite of leaning heavily on the new theories that were circulating at the time about warm blooded dinosaurs. They made great u… (View Post)