There are also the effects of long COVID. Something that is hard to fully define and measure, but that has an effect on a sizeable chunk of the population

Will the US pay for the bases when Iran destroys them?

Don’t forget the statement that using the UK bases to bombard Iran is in self defense! And that is also why there is no parliament discussion or vote

All those 4 EV as SUV. SUV are full of problems for society and I would rather avoid them.

Also, open source is likely to be cheaper, so in that sense, it will contribute less to growth as less money will be spent.

Also, they fail to mention that all US companies can be forced to obey Washington, even if the servers are in the EU

Take the water companies back into public ownership.

They will take the increase in bills and pass a chunk of it to their investors instead of using it for its intended purpose

I’ve been using a aCalendar for many years, it just present the calendar in a better way https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.withouthat.acalendar

Despite this U-turn the plan is still there, neither the scheme nor the giant price tag (1.8 billions pounds!) have gone away entirely. The government wants to introduce Digital IDs, and while they might not be mandatory at first, they could create a digital surveillance infrastructure that could fundamentally change how we live.

Once this system is in place, ‘mission creep’ is inevitable. We will be forced to use digital ID more and more in our daily lives. It will be used for profiling and surveillance, tracking our interactions with the State and more.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/say-no-to-digital-id/

As the Germans say " the police is blind on the right eye"

Not to mention that road degradation grows exponentially with the weight.

For instance, the damage caused by a 1 tom car is the equivalent of 160,000 cycle trips! And a 2 ton car will damage the road 16 times more than a 1 ton car.

Ah! Nice one… But no, it will be Oracle. They have paid Tony Blair about £250 in the last few to spew their nonsense, and Larry Ellison has spoken loudly about well behaved everyone will be once they can monitor everything we do.

Sounds like a police state paradise.

The one they dropped years ago?

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Funny enough, the article mentions 54 billion of investment on the national grid is needed over the next 10 years, and hinkley point currently costs 31!

Also consider how much renewables that investment could buy; its not just 31billon of today money that will start to see some benefit 20 years after it was started.

Mhhh, I can’t find what the actual import duties are. The closest I found was this article https://www.whatcar.com/news/chinese-car-tariffs-will-not-go-ahead-uk-government-confirms/n27198 that suggest there is none (unlike in the EU, where the rate is 35%).

BYD sell the dolphin for about 10k in China. So they could lower the price a lot more, and the current price reflects more strategy and marketing than production and import duties

Signal

They have a design site in Yeovil, and used to be Augusta westland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgustaWestland?wprov=sfla1

And the US gets to sell their weapons to allies. This acts as a subsidy on the development of new weapons systems, and prevents possible competitors from developing theirs. It is easier to win a war when your opponent cant make any weapons, or cant scale their weapon making fast enough.

It also provides an ever present treat to Europe: All those US bases scattered over the European continent are a reminder that Europe is free to choose their own political path, as long as they don’t deviate much from what Washington approves.

I’m afraid I don’t have a reliable source of information other than what I can see on the street. Anecdotally it is hard to find pescatarian or vegetarian dishes in many restaurants. If nearly 20% of the population was vegetarian, this wouldn’t be the case.