One reason for low productivity in the NHS is that capital spend has been far too low for years, hence antiquated IT, archaic buildings, delays getting investigations etc etc. For years capital, trai… (View Post)

No, that is just endless legal red tape, the same way so much gets delayed in this country. The legal system should get it right first time. We wouldn't tolerate that error rate without conseque… (View Post)

I am not particularly agitating for reparations from the landholders in compensation for the loss of traditional lands in the Highland Clearances and the equivalent English Enclosures, but it would b… (View Post)

The more accurate goose quip is this one: "The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose." (View Post)

I think that many of our freehold family farms only came into existence due to death duties on large aristocratic estates, with land sold to tenant farmers to pay the tax. At the end of enclosures th… (View Post)