Mmm, that for me is one of the big unknowns -- to what extent is Truss going to push through with stuff she believes in or has said, and to what extent is are we going to see a lot of kite-flying tha… (View Post)

...was it a tied house ? (View Post)

I think the intuition underlying this idea (which I have sympathy with) is that as humans we know that when we play chess we are doing so as a specific application of our general intelligence and pro… (View Post)

The bit about housing is particularly disheartening. The Tories have a manifesto commitment to build much more housing. Truss is, we are told, a vocal Yimby and in favour of planning reform. And yet … (View Post)

I think some oddities of this form are inevitable if you want to have the electricity industry being a wide range of different companies doing different things. If it was still the old Central Electr… (View Post)