One of the many benefits of a geology education. It recalibrates your idea of what counts as a nice beach day. (View Post)

Meanwhile, have we done this one yet? Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 29% (=) CON: 23% (-2) RFM: 22% (+1) LDM: 11% (+1) GRN: 10% (+1) SNP: 3% (=) Via @opiniumresearch.bsky.social, 18-20 Dec. Chang… (View Post)

And if he is comatose, that probably suits some of the people propping him up. See 1980s Soviet Presidents, or Franco in the 1970s, to take two examples. Trump gets the adulation, the people in the s… (View Post)

That's one model- capitalism done right, so to speak. The other is: 1 Sell and lease back all the assets 2 Load up the business with a pile of debt 3 Extract as much cash as you can in dividends… (View Post)

Johnson was from the end of politics where, if you want something enough and argue for it eloquently enough, it will happen. The sort of thing that underpins Debate Soc, or oped columns. Sometimes th… (View Post)