I follow an account called Tom Fowdy who's mainly a Chinese Communist Party stan but has been providing a nice, well-informed counterbalance to all the pro-Ukraine spin we've been getting about every… (View Post)

They should do that with electricity generation as well. "I require that you bring me a gigawatt. I don't care how you do it, just get it done". (View Post)

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)