Why does the ownership model of the NHS matter so much to you? Surely the quality of healthcare delivered is the more important measure? On which basis, the UK, with its singular system, is middling.… (View Post)

One of my favourite things about football (let's give the sport some credit for a change) has been its, on the whole, stubborn refusal to go in for the Americanisation of team names. You don… (View Post)

1) Caring about outcomes rather than ownership models? 2) Spending the money we have rather than the money we don't? 3) Not instinctively siding with the thugs from Hamas? 4) Caring about outcom… (View Post)

Quite - I quite admire sports which people will watch without really caring who wins (or even knowing who they will see before they turn up). Tennis and snooker fall into this category. (I'm sad… (View Post)

Yes, the biggest criticism of him is that he isn't terribly good at politics. Which strangley isn't the worst you can say of a PM. And he is arguably better at politics than Liz Truss, who … (View Post)