Yes, means testing is a really crap way to administer benefits. It's intrusive, bureaucratic and often unfair. Your suggestion of universal benefits offest by higher income tax makes far more sense b… (View Post)

And of course stuff like my sisters having to tolerate and laugh off sexual assault at the workplace in the name of "banter". (View Post)

Surely the majority of those emigrating will be people who previously immigrated rather than Britons. For example, students returning home after completing their studies. (View Post)

The older you get, the more it seems like the world is going to pot. That's been true from time immemorial. (View Post)

Given the massive immigration of European Jews to Israel over the past century or so, I would imagine that the current population of the country no longer has anything like the same degree of local l… (View Post)