Here's the square that needs circling (so to speak). Got my analogy wrong. Here's the circle you need to square: We're all living longer. We have a birthrate well below replacement. Th… (View Post)

Indeed. And I've said in the past that the UK is very unusual (and basically wrong) in not having two classes of visas: immigrant and non-immigrant. My current US visa (an O-1) is a non-immigran… (View Post)

Switzerland and Singapore imports lots of minimum wage people too: the cooks in restaurants and the nannies and the cleaners, they're not Swiss nationals. What they do a really good job in doing… (View Post)

Let's leave aside the migration question for now. (1) There is no evidence that fracking in the UK is economic. None of the well drilled by Cuadrilla or iGas found commercial quantities of natur… (View Post)

This is particularly true because the UK power generators tend to rely on spot LNG cargoes. (View Post)