Suboptimal Planet

A woman in her late twenties has been killed and her newborn baby girl in the same car airlifted to hospital after a collision on the M40, p...

Four years ago I blogged about ' a Britain where nobody wants to live '. The title was taken from a much-quoted speech by Ivan Law...

In today's City A.M. - Amazon floats plan to use drones to deliver packages : AMAZON is preparing to make next-day delivery obsolete ...

A tweet from Tom Paine brought me to a Salon article by Tom Watson: Don’t ally with libertarians: Ideologues co-opt an anti-NSA rally Wat...

Besides a superabundance of not very nice lager and 146 years as a country, Canadians have something practical to celebrate this Canada Day...

From the Institute for Energy Research : The Drax plant in Yorkshire, England is one of the biggest coal-fired power plants in the world w...

This sequence has been making the rounds on Facebook: A good point, well made.