On topic, I am about to win my bets that neither Starmer nor Badenoch would be replaced during 2025; the level of media chatter and political backroom plotting almost always over-estimates the likeli… (View Post)

Something approaching a third of heathcare spending is incurred during patients' last six months of life. (View Post)

Hopefully they've made a nice administrative saving by getting rid of all those unproductive jobs working in DOGE. (View Post)

You are presupposing anything is actually going to happen, that wouldn’t have, anyway. I’ve seen it dozens of times, in local government. You have a budget that won’t balance, and you’ve done all the… (View Post)

Every government pushes to be allowed to balance its numbers by including some item about reducing fraud or collecting more tax. It saves them having to find actual money by cutting more spending or … (View Post)