My impression (and I’d be delighted to be corrected on this) is that most European systems in comparable economies don’t spend much more than us out of taxation, but have a significant private insura… (View Post)

The Tories can’t reform the NHS: anything meaningful they proposed would result in uproar and headlines about moving directly to the US system. Only Labour has the political cover to actually do what… (View Post)

That was Fangorn, the ent that the hobbits meet in the Two Towers. (View Post)

Glad you got it, though the very model is from an earlier work. I did a bit of Gilbert and Sullivan at university; my last role was Grand Inquisitor in “Gondoliers”. (View Post)

I thought Thatcher was Methodist? (View Post)