I think Starmer would go voluntarily in 2028 having "fixed the foundations" and be replaced by a more charismatic leader such as Rayner or Phillipson. A lot depends on Deliverism, in partic… (View Post)

Not for some years. According to official UAE figures the TFR for Emirati women is 3.1 in 2022, down from 3.7 in 2015.… (View Post)

I have been musing on retiring to Africa, so perhaps the Golden Marigold Hotel is not such a bad Idea. A great article here on the decline of dating, which presumably is upstream of fertility for mos… (View Post)

Yes, I can see the perspective of South Korean women. Voluntary enslavement is an unpopular choice. I have recently read Haidts excellent book: "The Anxious Generation" about the influence … (View Post)

What the issue is here is not NHS vs Private care, it is medical complexity with multiple long term conditions impacting on one another. Certainly in systems that pay fee for service intervention rat… (View Post)