If MAGA are going after fat people in the military then they can't complain if they are held to the same standards. It's a nonsense really. All you need is an Xbox controller to rain death from a dro… (View Post)

Obviously. Every shop/pub/restaurant in Edinburgh was desperate for workers and the economic forecasts will have looked grim. I'm all for boosting wages at the bottom, particularly given our exceptio… (View Post)

The Greens are intoxicatingly optimistic at the moment. A different kind of populism. (View Post)

That makes perfect sense if employer NICs are making low-wage employers more expensive. We saw this in Scotland in the early 2010s. Increasing unemployment = productivity growth. As employment subseq… (View Post)

Perhaps in some cases but the overall applicant: placement ratio is 5:1 (though there is some double counting). For other specialisms like psychiatry it's 20:1. DYOR. I'm getting a mix of Scottish/En… (View Post)