Probably quite a lot- after all, one of the things Private Eye does is probe the limits of what unpublishable things can be published. As for this case, the general principe seems clear enough. Voter… (View Post)
Also that McSweeney strategy thing of annoying loyalists to win voters in swing seats. The Conservative success was very much a fringe of London thing. Apart from Chingford (which was a freak, for al… (View Post)
Churchill on being accused of being drunk applies. Painful as this is, the Democrats have a better chance of getting rid of their bad candidate than the Republicans do of getting rid of theirs. (View Post)
But there aren't waste products, because it's perfectly possible to convert unwanted hydrocarbons into useful ones. There's an energy cost, but it's not huge. And most of the other uses of hydrocarbo… (View Post)
They do, but pharmaceuticals really don't need much in the way of petrochemicals. And the raw materials aren't where the cost is. (Source: the size of a petrol tank and the size of an ibuprofen table… (View Post)