Too much frisson about fusion

If you find yourself believing the latest headlines on fusion you would fall down on your knees and praise the Government for steering us into Nirvana.

These headlines are, to all intents and purposes, the same ones that have been thrown around for around a century. If we can make fusion work then we can save the planet.

All we need to do to make it happen is to assign large sums of money to further research, funnelling it away from solving some of the world’s current problems that can be solved. Lord knows, there are enough of them.

This latest fusion breakthrough experiment finally got past the impediment of the energy produced being less than the energy used to create it. But only by a miniscule amount that lasted for a very small fraction of a second and took a facility the size of three football fields to do it.

A bit like crypto currencies if you think about it. We still have a long, long way to go so don’t start holding your breath.

Likewise, as we reach for the moon, planets, stars and galaxies huge resources are being used to create, well nothing

Election year is looming. Polling agencies will be telling you that they have a margin of error of 3.1%, but this figure refers to errors in sampling and should not be taken as validating conclusions.

The Scottish independence referendum is a classic example of how wrong they can be. But these pollsters and media are making money, so nothing is going to change.

It appears that there will be some turbulence caused by MP retirements next year.

Shonky political debating tricks continue to be used.

A favourite is to blame any bad trends during a government’s time in office on that government; and this is manifestly obvious in National’s pointing the finger at Labour for not building more houses.

The construction industry was never set on a growth path because of the oft repeated laissez-faire statements from