There’s a lot of multi-storey car parks built in the ‘60s that assumed an average car weighed 700 or 800kg, as they did at the time, in their engineering calculations. Now they would have had perhaps… (View Post)

I normally laugh at posts about crap British weather, when winter is the good weather out here in the sandpit, but I had to abandon my journey to the office this morning bacause of fog. It was so bad… (View Post)

From a position of wanting to maximise utility and reduce carbon emissions, a tax that reduces over time is best. From a position of wanting to maximise employment, economic activity, VAT receipts, a… (View Post)

Zelenskyy decided to meet with Erdogan instead of Witkoff in Turkey, had no interest in discussing Russia’s one-sided “proposal” given to the American negotiator, that appeared little different from … (View Post)

Oh indeed. We all know that China plays the very long game, and it’s not difficult to imagine that Xi has his eye on the potential wealth oil and mineral in Eastern Russia. One can understand that th… (View Post)