As do all businesses but they have the safeguard of competition from rivals. With a business which is a natural monopoly an effective regulator is required instead. (View Post)

The UK having to live within its means would hopefully enforce a more mature attitude. If the only way to increase your spending is to increase your earning then greater attention would need to be pa… (View Post)

I'm happy to admit my prejudice on this issue and broad brush it over any I suspect of self-pity and subsidy hunting - there's already been too many of these stories and too many idiot poli… (View Post)

Didn't 1970s Japanese cars have good engines and bad bodies ? As opposed to British cars which had bad engines and bad bodies. (View Post)

One of the great things about PB is that you can always learn something new about the world. I can now confidently talk about new developments in car manufacturing to people who know nothing about ca… (View Post)