Across regulated industries there has been a step change in the past 16 months. Solar farms left as proposals for years were signed off in weeks. We haven’t completed a new reservoir in 30 years despite the population growing by 10m. This government’s signed off 9

Like many of today’s ills, I consider the current housing cost crisis to have it’s roots in the Thatcher era, followed by decades of leaving it all to the private sector, and an almost complete lack of gov action to tackle long-term challenges.

One issue is an aging population.
Neither of my grandfathers lived long enough to collect a penny of pension.
I now have relatives who have been retired for more years than they earned wages.
Current taxpayers are paying for those pensions and health costs.

Not often you can say the camel is stealing the show…

There’s now so much garbage orbiting earth, just a few big collisions splintering into many pieces risks cascading collisions until the entire zone is untenable for satellite or space travel, taking us back to the pre-satellite age.

One of the reasons why an #AMOC shutdown “cannot be considered a low likelihood risk anymore” is this study:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
And if you want to know more what this is about, watch my short presentation here: youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8?...

Lots of bugs about… 😷
I paid up to get a Covid vaccine booster last month and the pharmacist said the latest Covid strain had started ramping up much earlier than usual this year.

“Andy Field, a GP in York, was two years below Farage. “If smartphones had been widely available at this time we would no doubt have footage of him goose-stepping as this was a fairly frequent sight in the playground, particularly when he was a prefect in the upper sixth,” he said.