Once more, with feeling: It's not a debt in the standard sense that individuals are all expected to pay it back. It's a picky distinction, but it matters. And if we are headed for a robot a… (View Post)

It's striking how keen some people are to write off the Starmer-Macron plan before it's even started. (Me, I dunno. But it seems to have fewer legal hurdles, lower cost and more capacity th… (View Post)

Best answer is probably to put small amounts of ducting under the pavement. Tricky now, because of planning but not intrinsically difficult. Andrew Hunter-Murray (of QI and Private Eye) has been part… (View Post)

It's a weird tangle we've got ourselves in. British people are about as rich as we have ever been, there are clearly useful jobs that need doing, but we somehow we don't think we can a… (View Post)

Partly Douglas Adams's Third Law of New Technology; Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. Partly the refusal of Generation Boomer to let go of the cu… (View Post)