theProle

The problem is the absence of what is called "spinning reserve". Back in the good old days, when almost all our electricity was produced by burning stuff, generation worked as follows: Burn… (View Post)

We ran out of chairs at our church yesterday. Conservative Evangelical Low Church Anglicans. I don't think I've seen that happen at Easter for a long time - certainly not since Covid. Thinking about … (View Post)

The other thing is that we had natural resources - particularly lots of good quality, relatively easily mined, coal - which turbo-charged the industrial revolution. If you take the view (and it's cer… (View Post)

Or will we see a big right wing tactical voting campaign? On those numbers it wouldn't take much effort to give Ref + Con a stonking majority. And that's probably the best outcome too - the Tories sh… (View Post)

Why do we need to nationalise a profitable business? The problem with Thames isn't it's failure to generate more money than it's operating costs, it's that it's substantial operating profits are insu… (View Post)