A classic example of this phenomenon is John B. Goodenough, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 at the age of about 96. He did research into lithium ion batteries in the 1970s and 80s at O… (View Post)

The reality is now that that the UK has left the West, and it is now in the same boat as Russia and China in the sense that it is in thrall to a political ideology - Brexit - that overpowers economic… (View Post)

I watched part of Question Time last night, unusually. There were several questions from the audience about the economic and trading effects of Brexit. The Conservative and Labour politicians did not… (View Post)

It is easy to blame Tory members for the collapse. However, Tory MPs presented them with two weak candidates in the final two. Clearly Truss was a very weak candidate. The other candidate, Sunak, cou… (View Post)

Liz Truss has cost the Conservative Party lots of support in the polls, and she is under-qualified to be PM. Is she to blame for this? No. The blame lies with the contorted logic by which so many peo… (View Post)