In the era of nationalised industries our energy networks (gas, electricity) were "over-engineered", so that gas storage for example would cater for a "one-in-a-hundred-year" even… (View Post)

Last three words puzzled me until I looked at the tweet itself. (View Post)

The designers of devolution have left us in Hotel California. Two fifths of the Scottish electorate go SNP while the other three fifths are hopelessly split. Even though there's an approximation… (View Post)

Long ago the Sunday Times analysed many political leaders' speeches for egotism, using the simple metric of the frequency of use of the first person singular. The least egotistic person by that … (View Post)

That's a fine Gallic tradition. When de Gaulle referred to La France he meant himself. (View Post)