Wow. That's two big political events this month where my predictions were totally wrong (I expected an autumn UK election and a hung jury in the Trump trial). Still just time to fit in a third :-) (View Post)

Yeah, if your model is telling you "29 tory seats" you should be suspecting "model has been pushed outside its valid range" rather than "historically unprecedented wipeout in… (View Post)

I think it is not so much the train retrofitting and more having to retrofit the whole railway network. In this case the problem was failure to slow down enough before the red signal, so you would ne… (View Post)

Drivers having route restrictions isn't bizarre -- it's necessary for safety, because you need to be able to anticipate what's coming up, know the braking points, and so on. So drivers can only drive… (View Post)

One of the things Kwarteng said in his interestingly frank interview with Stewart & Campbell was (if I remember correctly) that Truss wasn't interested in suggestions to pause/slow down/reassess … (View Post)