Scott Law

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@Manners15 Monte Bello is sensory overload. 😍

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@Saul_Sadka "Advance copy"

Still waiting for the original material to show up?

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I have to say it's incredibly sad to see a global reputation for academic excellence build over 800 years being destroyed.

Pandora's box is now wide open!

I wonder if the leaders of this once elite university will grasp the nettle and take the corrective action to begin to restore confidence before it's too late?

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Spotting Arday fibs not sufficiently challenging anymore - can we change the rules to score a point by finding a true statement (2 points for a genuine achievement).

Appreciate this is much more difficult - but as Jason himself would (probably now) tell you, it's no fun when it's too easy!

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@Manners15 Don’t forget your corkscrew and your phone

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@Chablislodge Ahh - that’s a shame. The 2009 in the pic above - I opened that last year. Tasted blind I’d have guessed 5 years not 16 years in the cellar. Beautiful wine.

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@jwalkermobile How was it?

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@Chablislodge Fan of Pic too. Chablis aristocracy!

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@Rigeru12345

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@carlgauthier how many of you were there?

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@MoutonIsAClaret your kitchen looks like a semi-civilised place to hang out!

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@jwalkermobile Looks like a cracking place - and they've got a London outpost in Covent Garden!

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If you are a super-talented, ultra-ambitious, visionary entrepreneur, what are the main differences between the Midlands and Texas?

Why select one location over the other?

Texas
Land is available and relatively cheap. You can assemble hundreds of acres without decades of compulsory purchase battles.
Energy is abundant and cheap (critical for a fab). Texas has a functioning energy market that prioritises supply.
Permitting and local incentives move at the speed of commercial reality. Local governments compete for the project rather than treating it as a threat.
Culture is pro-building, pro-ambition, and tolerant of failure. The default answer is closer to “how do we make this work?” than “what are all the reasons this might be a problem?”
Capital, talent, and supply chain already in place.

Midlands
Deep engineering heritage and a workforce that still understands manufacturing in a way many other UK regions don’t.
Closer to major population centres and existing supply chains (auto, aerospace, advanced manufacturing).
The emotional and political case for “one project that actually changes the North” is real.

But the binding constraints are structural:
Planning and environmental process can easily consume 7–12 years and still result in a no.
Industrial energy costs are the highest in the developed world.
The system is optimised for risk aversion, consultation, and distribution of existing activity rather than creation of new high-ambition capacity at continental scale.

A super-talented, ultra-ambitious founder doesn’t choose Texas because they dislike Britain. They choose it because the probability of actually getting a 100-million-sq-ft, vertically integrated, energy-intensive facility built and operating within a meaningful timeframe is dramatically higher there.

In the Midlands the same project would spend most of its first decade in process rather than production.

Many people want Britain to be much more ambitious. The question is whether the institutional and political environment is capable of enabling that ambition.

Right now, for projects of this magnitude, it isn’t.

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@MrJohnJnr 100%

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@jwalkermobile Grok's knowledge of wine is beyond impressive!

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@xdNiBoR The world is full of people who delight in telling you 'it can't be done'. Personally I ignore them (and certainly never hire them).

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@LozzaFox @Cambridge_Uni Aged well.