Fortunately, when you take the UK population as a proportion of the World Population it's only 0.007 which is near as dammit zero, so none of these issues affect anyone really, and I probably don't e… (View Post)

Indeed. I think Boris's genius (?) was that onto that carefully cultivated blither, people could project whatever they wanted. Sometimes it worked out for him (London, first half of his premiership) … (View Post)

I fell for the autonomous cars hype, I'm ashamed to say. 7-8 years ago, I did not believe that tech folk would be flat out lying about the capability they had developed, as opposed to the usual "… (View Post)

I did bring that up earlier! (View Post)

By and large we had done quite a good job (today) of focusing on the internal Tory politics rather than the rights and wrongs of B****t per-se. But it did rather get away from us at the end there. (View Post)