People always quote gay rights as the paradigm of something where attitudes shifted because it just seemed "obvious" to a new generation unencumbered by the baggage of the old, but the trut… (View Post)

On topic, if I follow correctly, the main scenarios see the Cons somewhere between breakeven and a few hundred gains, and even the "doomsday" scenario only has them down 150. Aren't these a… (View Post)

Fair enough - I certainly can't claim any deep insight into the priorities of that age group, other than to say that Uni/non-Uni is often a dividing line of sorts. The only other point I'd make on th… (View Post)

Very possibly. I think there are three (interrelated) counterarguments: 1) It's easy to forget that over half of people don't go to University. A lot of the "woke" agenda is driven by peopl… (View Post)

The thing is that the public sector never really had a proper DB scheme. The Government never funded it properly; the benefits were just paid out of taxation receipts as and when they fell due. Which… (View Post)