I can think of one heroin-using PBer who should count himself fortunate that he hasn't gone the same way. Some of the stories you hear are heartbreaking, and it's the same individuals causing a signi… (View Post)

It's worth digging into the Scottish data on this - from memory, the reason that we continue to have such a high numbers of deaths is drug users from the 80s/90s (when we had our insane heroin epidem… (View Post)

My mistake. If she'd actually harmed a Jewish patient that's much worse, I'd agree. But accidentally without discrimination? It's difficult to compare but a perception of a health service that does n… (View Post)

Particularly the reference to a hospital. I think public sector workers should be allowed to hold public opinions but not when it undermines the service they are providing. (View Post)

It's not a bad argument but taxing motoring does tick three boxes in terms of the economics: is a Pigou tax for road wear, congestion, noise pollution, and emissions; isn't as distortive as other tax… (View Post)