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So you want to cut the state in half, do you? Halve education, halve healthcare, halve defence, halve justice, halve old age pensions? Really?...
Ditto
Well, turns out my prediction was wrong: they haven't raised it from 0.5% ... yet. New guess: maybe in December. Surely the MPC will want to...
People usually ask if I am a Martian.
If you launch eastwards (as you usually do), at the equator you get well over 1,000 mph added to your speed for free. The further from the...
If (say) you start off in life poor and later become rich, or you start off in robust health and later become dependent on the NHS, your...
It's not that Baikonur has advantages, it's just that the Soviet Union was a northern country and had no access to any suitable locations nearer...
Of course you can launch into some kind of orbit from anywhere on earth. But if you want to be able to get to geostationary (as any commercial...
The USA has seen increasing polarisation in recent years, with a sharp divide opening between the two parties. The Republicans in particular have...
Somewhere nearer the equator would be preferable for orbital launches, surely?
Each political party has to choose whether to pitch its policies to a broad base, designed to appeal to the largest possible range of the whole...
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Throughout my lifetime, and long before, the then-current crop of political leaders has been described as mediocre, pygmies, lacking in vision,...
Anyone whose duties oblige them to travel has to claim travelling expenses. If they have to travel a lot, the travel expenses will be a larger...
It is n It is now 50 years since the old War Office, Admiralty and Air Ministry were amalgamated into a single MOD. Given that the total serving...
Corrected for you.
No need to worry about the old "RN vs. RAF" thing. They'll all be just one Service soon enough.
Absolutely. To design, develop, build, and introduce into service a new plane/ship/rocket or whatever, with performance far superior to...
As I have said before, I favour a mixed economy. Some goods and services, e.g. food and clothing, are best left to private providers; some, e.g....
