I think a sovereign debt crisis is inevitable. Too many countries are simply over borrowed and cannot afford to both pay the interest and maintain the services that their electorates expect. We are c… (View Post)

Dundee is not exactly a wealthy area, although there is a tranche of old money here from the days of the Jute Mills and the glory days of DC Thomson and the Alliance Trust. But, and we looked into th… (View Post)

I agree that both of these are better than what we have now but, for me, the lottery idea is oversold. What we are talking about is whether someone who ends up with hundreds of thousands of care cost… (View Post)

I get that and that is undoubtedly a risk at the margins. But how many people are really willing to risk an old age in a grubby, poorly maintained and very poorly staffed local authority care home so… (View Post)

The key to social care was set out in the Dilnot report on Social care as long ago as 2011. We need the elderly to pay a lot more of their care. The idea that the inheritance for the family is more i… (View Post)