Yvette Cooper may well be better than Starmer in the narrow sense of seeming more competent, more grounded and less eerily focus-grouped. But that is still a very low bar. As an answer to Labour’s cu… (View Post)

Quite. PB remains one of the few places where a man’s testicles can be traduced at 1pm and his argument fairly assessed by 2pm. On the article, I think “20,000 words” is less an invitation than a war… (View Post)

That’s a fair summary. SMRs are basically a bet that repeatable production can do for nuclear what repetition does for every other engineered system: keep skills warm, find faults earlier and stop re… (View Post)

It’s a bit like modern CI/CD. Pushing small, frequent, well-tested changes to main usually reduces risk compared with hoarding months of work and then attempting one heroic release. The number of dep… (View Post)

The economics point is largely fair for big new-build nuclear in the West: long lead times, eye-watering financing costs and a heroic tradition of delays. But “hardly anyone has built any in the last… (View Post)