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Doesn't that just show that he's batting too far down the order? I'd guess the stat is supposed to show that they are relatively rare things, but that Buttler has made them far more common. You can argue whether that's because he's a good batsman batting too low or because the top order are so...

To be fair those two managed it pretty well - they hustled, ran hard and hit the odd boundary. As long as you hit one boundary per over that can easily bring you 9+ runs. The problem is that it seems that no-one in the England set-up thinks to do this before the last ten overs, I think that's...

This is Alex Hales, the only man to have scored a Twenty20 century for England, who hasn't played a game for weeks and has been dropped in at a position that he doesn't play for his county. Moores has to go after this World Cup. I was vaguely in favour of his re-appointment (at least I could...

FFS Stat Brother, that is amazing. Chapeau indeed. I am after (another) bit of geek advice. I recently (in mileage terms) put a 23mm Vittoria Rubino Pro on the back wheel to match that on the front. To be frank, it feels a bit like I'm ice skating rather than cycling. The rear has slipped a...

Just had an odd one. Bike is indoors at the moment due to dodgy lock on shed. On Tuesday I changed the inner tube on my rear wheel as it had a puncture, and pumped it up to near max pressure, about 140 psi. Walk into room where bike is this evening to hang up some washing and BANG, inner tube...

Call me a luddite but I just haven't quite worked out the point of smart watches. I'm normally all in for new tech but I just can't quite see the point. I almost backed the new Pebble Kickstarter earlier this week, but then thought - what is this actually going to do for me though? Yes there are...

So the powers that be have taken down the video, just before I was going to watch it [emoji35] does anyone know where I might *ahem* acquire it?

You say this, but surely the cost of collecting every week, rather than every two (as per your first idea) would be much more expensive in the long run? In Cambridgeshire we have 3 full-sized bins - one green (compostables), one blue (all recycling) and one black (landfill). One week they...

Is the lack of a left armer really a problem? Yes Moores likes someone a bit different, and he bought in Sidebottom previously (to very good effect). I'm not sure it's the massive issue that's it's been made out to be recently though. The selectors (at least any in the job longer than twelve...

Not a massive fan, but it's a lot less intrusive on NSC Modern - I suspect many of those complaining about it are on the NSC Classic view.

The FT do a survey of prominent economists annually, but I don't think that would show the consensus that SWL is talking about. I think it depends what he means by the policy. Pretty much any half-decent economist would have told you that austerity was going to have a negative impact on the...

Triggaaar didn't like Simon Wren-Lewis' last column - he's likely to like this one even less. It's a lengthy read but a good (relatively non-technical) economic assessment of government behaviour since 2009. Simon Wren-Lewis - The Austerity Con

Think you may have misread my post - that was exactly my point. Driverless cars as a lease-only thing will have much slower take-up than driverless cars with private ownership. If the only business model is lease, then there will be slow takeup, IMHO. At the moment most people are very much used...

People already pay at least two annual fees associated with car ownership - Vehicle Excise Duty and insurance. I don't think adding one more is going to be a major problem, particularly if it's (at least partly) offset by a reduction in insurance (as personal insurance would presumably cover...

I'm also doing Ride London. Definitely going to go down the day before, have to register and pick up starters pack on either the Thursday, Friday or Saturday so will probably head over and do that Saturday and then stay in London.

Out of interest, do you write anything yourself or is every post a cut and paste from a press release? From memory a lot of your Israel stuff is similar...

Politicians are the wrong people to ask about debt serviceability. Try asking one of the traders on here, someone might deal in government bonds. This chart makes the point quite succinctly, however. I (kind of) agree with you that it's difficult to directly compare performance (and SWL makes...

This is I think where we fundamentally differ. Does the debt need to be paid off at some point? Yes. Does it need to be paid off today, or tomorrow? No. In December the government paid off the last of its WW1 debt. 98 years after issuing the bonds. The bonds were worth £1.9bn - or 0.12% of GDP...

Sorry to disappoint you but I don't have any major political prejudice and I think you are talking complete bollocks. We have a parliament that votes on issues put before them - and the government does on occasion lose these votes. Similarly, the opposition do not oppose every single motion put...

There was a belief (and there largely still is) that recessions are temporary downturns in an ever-rising tide. In this context sharp increases in borrowing during a recession weren't seen as a major problem, as when the economy recovered the debt would come down and GDP would increase fast...