Aye. I'm losing faith in our political ability to imagine a future.

I'd love to think so.

Having nuclear weapons that are costly, require extensive maintenance + expensive replacement, but you can't use without persuasion strikes me as the worst of all possible worlds, leaving aside whether UK requires them in first place

Agree re Thiel.
IMO We pivoted from EU at worst possible point

All the same, I'm delighted they're still playing!

I'll be listening out for it...

Utterly wonderful. It stayed, and stays in my head.

I find a spreadsheet helps...

Obviously. I mean, it worked so well for Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and Syria...

One can hope.

Thank you...

And you. The builders have gone, so supper here sometime in the new year would be good!