WTF was also my initial response to the Rees Mogg thing. OTOH your last paragraph makes me think: If Truss's main policy lever of choice is deregulation, and fast renewables build-out is the answer t… (View Post)

This is definitely true, although the same applies to the ways the west has exerted pressure on Russia, ie if the US is able to wreck Russia's economy and military by withholding US tech, or hurt the… (View Post)

I think there's sort of an intermediate path whereby Trump is done, but too slowly to matter. ie this particular hack can't actually stop the prosecution, but there will always be a tame judge somewh… (View Post)

FPT I expect there was a third one that wasn't in the reporting? However back in the day the system was that Oxford would do their own admissions testing 9 months before the public exams and if you p… (View Post)

Gold is a wildly volatile speculative asset so you can't measure the value of the money in terms of the amount of gold it can buy. If you look at the chart you have a period in a few years where the … (View Post)