I can understand the sheep needing to carry a bell so others can follow it, but why do they need to castrate it? Is it because otherwise it would follow the sexiest ewe rather than leading the pack? (View Post)

Surely unnecessary? I remember being told on here before the election that the new government would have three quick and easy wins - relations with the EU, housebuilding and stopping the small boats.… (View Post)

But many people will have valued the extra day off - what matters in cost-benefit analyses is welfare, not GDP, and when the two clash, usually because of non-quantifiable metrics the former wins. Al… (View Post)

Why on earth not? No other country has the NHS, and few have anything much like it. Other countries do have healthcare systems though, many considerably better than ours. If we hadn't created the NHS… (View Post)

I'm not so sure. Farage strikes me as someone that the centrist Establishment often underestimate. People might be annoyed enough with five years - well, actually by then about 20 - of mass immigrati… (View Post)