The point about the divine wind is that it succeeded twice (1274, 1281 on checking). Failed once (1944-45). Admittedly a 1 in 3 failure rate - not satisfactory. (View Post)

Re the SNP - that evidence you adduce was 2019! An election and a FM ago! Not going to happen this side of the next election. But the issue is being reviewed. https://www.healthandcare.scot/stories/4… (View Post)

OTOH the prescription system in Scotland was massively simplified when the SG realised that much of the bureaucracy was focussed on the paying minority of users - the majority tended to be old with m… (View Post)

But you get more growth from the lower income people*, and still more because there are no cliff edges [edit] of the kind about which people on about 60 to 100K on here complain all the time that the… (View Post)

Something like the basalt-flow landscape of the Inner Hebrides might be the ideal, a mischievous PBer might suggest ... I could never understand why the stamp duty for houses had such enormous cliff … (View Post)