Two triumphs of engineering kept Concorde flying as long as it did. One was the aeronautics that built it. The other was the financial engineering around the time BA was privatised that kept it going… (View Post)

FPT: There was barely an economic market for Concorde at the time. London/Paris to New York was the only one that airlines ever found, and I'm not sure about Paris. And now we have video calls, … (View Post)

But that's rational talk, centrist dad talk. There have already been a couple of sensible posters (and Leon) put up the "all the other parties are just as bad" defence. And used it as … (View Post)

Also, "which potential leader makes me feel good about myself" tends to beat "which potential leader is most plausible as a national leader"? Which is fair enough for a hobby in a… (View Post)

Depends what the alternative may have been. Look at previous responses to financial crashes. Look at what happened in Spain, or Greece. There was lots wrong over the last 15 years or so, but it reall… (View Post)