A more accurate headline might read: 'Broccoli farmer has his facts wrong on solar energy & land use'.
For Ireland to hit its target of 8GW of solar power would require 0.25% of farmland.
Somehow the remaining 99.75% isn't adequate to maintain food supply...?
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Forget "total cost of ownership." In the UK, the average EV is now cheaper than the average ICE vehicle, up front. Sticker cost.
And of course the savings just keep accumulating after that.
While I think some sort of change is both necessary & welcome, I still can't see how windfall profits and cfd (basically fixed pricing) is less of an intervention in the market than simply ring-fencing gas. I don't think pay-as-you-bid was proposed; simply keeping the market and separating gas.
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I think the war is in the PM's favour as he has demonstrably kept Britain out, contrary to Reform and the Tories' stated early opinions.
“£90bn a year lost because of Brexit” is not a fact, it’s the absolute top-end of a modelled estimate based on a hypothetical no-Brexit scenario.
It’s not observed,not agreed on & not a fixed number.
Turning “up to £90bn” into a guaranteed annual loss is classic statistical spin.
Pretty much how all anglophone politics works. The swing of the pendulum is bigger than the political parties (which is why no permanent majority can be fixed).
Dissatisfaction & ennui among elites and the public guarantees a change.
Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.
Most of those Spain has legalised are Spanish speaking South Americans, so it is easier.
Most nations, including the UK and the US would accept something similar if they could be sure it would end illegal immigration and overstays. But it won't, so the cycle will start again.
This substack is a very good summary of the Japanese commissions astuteness in understanding the causes of their 1980s trade surplus, and in proposing solutions.
The solutions however, were hard to implement. T'was ever thus.
How can they make it stop at any time? There are problems in society illustrated here that are larger than Greggs. We can't have guards at every shop or everything behind the counter.
Every time I see this image, I'm struck by how much western art regressed between the Roman era and the Middle Ages.
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Coke tastes better from a glass bottle.
There was no more ideologically constrained politician than Margaret Thatcher. Her views were lifted straight from von Hayek, and their application was a slow-burn disaster for the UK.
Even read in its full context, that speech was sociopathic.
👇 An expression that should be muttered like a daily prayer by Western politicians who have forgotten that enduring prosperity can't be imported.
Hourglass-shaped sunset clouds, Santa Fe, NM. 14”x11” oil
Fair point.
I'm not saying 6 hours is good, just what I was expecting.
The police are overstretched and presumably had to drive to your place, so it would be more than 15 mins.
That said, burglary is very upsetting to experience.
It was a genuine surprise. I was expecting 6 hours or similar.
Out of curiosity, how long did it take?
This post very precisely supports my point.
Fear of violence and injury, probably greater at head office.
A society that tolerates constant petty theft. It's corrosive.
Erasmus Darwin is portrayed as a spectator, seated front left, in Wright of Derby’s most famous painting: An Experiment 1768. With profile largely in shadow, he is watching the experiment intently. Erasmus Darwin, Midlands Enlightenment thinker, physician, inventor, abolitionist, died #OTD 1802; founding member of Lunar Society (with Watt, Boulton & Wedgwood), grandfather of Charles Darwin, friend of Benjamin Franklin. National Gallery London
Portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Wright of Derby c.1770 Birmingham Art Gallery
Erasmus Darwin, Midlands Enlightenment thinker, physician, inventor, abolitionist, died #OTD 1802; founding member of Lunar Society (with Watt, Boulton & Wedgwood), grandfather of Charles Darwin, friend of Benjamin Franklin.
An Experiment 1768 by Wright of Derby
Portrait 1770 Birmingham AG - ALT
New era alliance management…
Voting yes, won't solve the problem suggested in the op.
Tesla paid $1 billion in taxes to China & $0 in federal income taxes to the US. At least 88 highly profitable corporations paid $0 federal income tax last year while bringing in $ billions. Disney, CVS, Palantir, Taco Bell & others are making massive profits, paying executives enormous ⬇️
Exactly. If Scots believe this in any way (and the most consequential ballot suggested not), then they have an inferiority complex that will not be cured by independence.
The complaint would simply be converted into one about dominance by a foreign power (England) on a small island.
