tomo,
Beatrice Shilling talk was very enjoyable. I suppose we can take some comfort from the all too familiar bureaucratic blob behaviour. They got by, so maybe we can too.

One of the questions put a bit of a damper on the engineering brilliance when it turned out that the Americans just popped an off-the-shelf Bendix carburettor into their Merlins, which apparently did the trick.

Starmer thing was something to behold. Can someone please wake up all the political class to the fact that wealth is in the *consumption* of energy, not its production. The farm hands of a century ago were replaced by the tractor which freed their descendants to attend uni. Now those educated halfwits (can leave off the first three letters if you like) are pushing "abolish the tractor for green new jobs".

Jo Nova is covering more "green new jobs" today as a hailstorm takes it toll on a large solar farm in Texas. Lots of work to clean it up. Economists talk about creative destruction, but sometimes it's just destructive destruction.

tomo; thanks for the Schilling link.
It'll be a good watch if it's anywhere near the standard of his book.

A state-owned, taxpayer-funded company "investing" in tax-payer subsidised infrastructure. What could possibly go wrong.

One of the few things more stupid than a vote for the 'Conservatives' is a vote for Labour. We're stuffed.

Labour, will give us more forms of energy production that do not work AND cant tell us what a f98king woman is.

What you see happening up in Scotland and Ireland with their hate speech laws will come this way very quickly once we get our Labour overlords in power.

And we have Rishi and the other limp wristed vegetables to thank for that.

Mr Musk saw fit to retweet this. Bit of tasteful ridicule.

Too said "the kindergarten suicide bomber role play stuff with the 3 hole balaclavas and camo romper suits finished off any residual sympathy I had..."

Yes, anyone capable of the critical act of having two or more functioning brain cells will be in the same boat.

Sadly though, there are many on the left who would be only too happy to have joined in on the 7th of October...just as they would have happily loaded their friends, family and neighbours in to cattle carts all across Europe in the early 1940's.

tomo,
Yeah, making a good living out of prolonging problems is widespread and growing. It might be partly a byproduct of "educating" people who, just a century ago, would have been employed as farm workers. Idle hands, Devil's work, all that.

Didn't take them long to scuttle Durkin's latest. Clearly it was right on target.

That facial recognition thing is beyond a joke. A couple of years ago it was "you must wear a mask", now it's "you must not wear a mask". Time to identify as a Muslim woman...

Mailman,
I doubt the zealots are all that numerous in Gaza. There are bound to be many there convinced that all their suffering is down the Israelis, but I'm sure there are plenty who are well aware that they are constantly being propagandised. I doubt there's any way to "brainwash" a population. It'll take with many, but there will always be some who don't buy it (as per COVID).

If you listen to that EconTalk, you'll hear him blaming a lot of the trouble on external support from Qatar both in large amounts of money and in shelter for Hamas high-ups. It seems to me that the Qataris are the zealots to worry about, not the deluded fools on the ground in Gaza. The Ireland parallel being that the IRA (etc.) footsoldiers, even if they still believed the nonsense, weren't able to do much soldiering when all the money from American romantics dried up.

Unless the world is prepared to go hard...

Those are words I don't like to see. Who is this "world"? It's a bit diverse and inclusive don't you think? Maybe you just meant the civilised world, or was it the good guys? I don't have much faith in "international collaboration". It seems that, in all cases during my lifetime, such actions have served only to prolong problems, and I strongly suspect there were people milking them for all they were worth.

I vote for no interference from anybody: World or Arab. I think an unsupported Israel might be able to come to an arrangement with an unsupported Hamas. Yes, even Hamas.