For all some people moan about national pay scales, I'm pretty confident that the alternative (getting everyone to name their price) would work out worse for the taxpayer. Monopsony is a pertty … (View Post)

Both those times, the centripetal forces on the 2.5 party system won out. There is less sign of that happening this time, which says something (probably quite bad) about us as a nation. We're a … (View Post)

Point is, there isn't a single right answer, because everything has certain downsides. Solar plus batteries is cheap, but you need an awful lot of it in winter. (Not quite it doesn't work, … (View Post)

Also, you have to be pretty close to the action to be aware of how cheap solar and wind have got, and how quickly. Now, we're just left with the issues that the cost of renewables is mostly capi… (View Post)

Which has its own downsides- on yer bike becomes a lot harder, for a start. It highlights the very human hypocrisy at the heart of somewhereism; it sucks when Yourtown changes around you, and it suck… (View Post)