Yup - coal. I was surprised that coal production was that high, as recently as the 2010s. For comparison, both global coal production and global car production were still increasing in 2021. (View Post)

Never reveal your search results. People might discover that Bing thinks you are Matt Hancock curious. (View Post)

I subscribed to the FT digital during lockdown - initially out of solidarity with a friend who has a weekly column, but discovering it was actually good in the process; but I haven't touched a printe… (View Post)

I agree. The "ability" axis and the "life course experience" axis are quite different. We can have a diversity of people in parliament whose earlier life course is more like "… (View Post)

I agree with your thesis that the best and brightest have given politics a wide birth for a number of years now. This tends to mean that "competent managerialism" is the best we can hope fo… (View Post)