It's pretty meaningless either way. TWENTY FIVE BILLION POUNDS spread over ten years and a country is about £30 a head a year. And that's being optimistic about both the revenues and the co… (View Post)

Though the other half of that aphorism is the key bit; Even when the customer is wrong, the customer is still right. Which is good retail, good electoral politics but lousy government. It doesn'… (View Post)

Except... have they failed? Compared with pretty much everywhere and everywhen else, this is a good place to be. Some version of liberal democracy and a social market economy without wars works bette… (View Post)

It's depressing, but not entirely surprising. After all, things don't feel great, and Farage's message- it's not your fault, it's Them- is always popular in those circumstanc… (View Post)

Trouble is that we all disagree on which one is Bad. (FWIW, my take is that SMR isn't so much Bad, as overtaken by events. Renewables plus batteries is better on cost for 90-95% of the year, and… (View Post)