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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
"We can't have those nasty foreigners..." Indeed. And they can have us: mass emigration of the workforce - especially people in their late teens and early twenties - as undocumented migrant labour in the building sites and care comes of...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
"We can't have those nasty foreigners..." Indeed. And they can have us: mass emigration of the workforce - especially people in their late teens and early twenties - as undocumented migrant labour in the building sites and care comes of...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
Yes, mass conscription can only exist in a well-run labour market... Or a centrally-planned labour scheme with work camps. Oddly enough, it is compatible with a failing labour market, insofar as the government of the day might regard mass unemployment...
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Commented on Pushing it back
Lines in the landscape persist in the soil for centuries, and may well persist in the rock strata for eons. There is a particular line, which provides a distinctive signature for high-speed transport: the cubic spiral. Not straight lines, nor...
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Commented on Strong and Stable!
I doubt that the Conservative Party will ever truly disappear: there will always be multimillionaires in search of opportunities for personal enrichment in politics, and billionaires seeking to own governments... And, perhaps the political process in its entirety. And their...
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Commented on I can't even
The impending Conservative Conference... There's every prospect of a complete shitshow, and I am laying-in stocks of popcorn in anticipation. However, the most likely outcome is an eerie stage-managed enthusiasm with moderately-convincing 'spontaneous' applause with subtle amplification, and stirring renditions...
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Commented on The gathering crisis
Yep: pubs are going to go under - maybe not 70% of them, but certainly more than a quarter: half is entirely plausible. And this is a commercial opportunity for the chain operators who will buy them up: some of...
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Commented on The gathering crisis
The answer to nuclear power's inflexibility is the same as the answer to wind and solar power's variability: storage. Pumped Storage development in Portugal Pumped Storage development in Switzerland Pumped Storage development in the EU and Scotland (from 2020) Essentially,...
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Commented on The gathering crisis
You're too nice! No, really. You want a 'Screw-Em-Over Screxit', start with the premise that a seceding territory which achieves self-determination and statehood does not take on any part of their former rulers' debts. This is the the sting in...
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Commented on The gathering crisis
The bit that's missing is how fast this is happening... ...Energy bills are soaring to the point where We're past that point, and we're already seeing secondary effects: it's accelerating, damage has already been done, and it might not be...
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Commented on The gathering crisis
You're pretty close, here: "...use the Blairite powers to use G4S or even Constellis Holdings (ex Blackwater) to restore control" If you had to name the 'alarm bell' signal for me to sweep up my hard-currency stash and passport into...
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Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
This isn't about Western political concerns: but it isn't quite about Russian security concerns arising from Ukraine's hypothetical (and improbable) future membership of NATO. It's about economics, and Russia's desire to exist at the centre of a web of corrupt...