This is all a bit tedious, like the lab leak debate and the existence of God and the meaning of life. We've discussed it inconclusively, we can't prove any of the theories, nobody's pe… (View Post)

I was chatting to a Conservative voter at a Christmas lunch the other day, and he offered as a defence of the Government's position that paying nurses more risked attracting people who only do i… (View Post)

That's a really good post. In general, most examples of systematic abuse seem to arise in sectors where the perpetrators correctly judged that the victims would not complain or would not be list… (View Post)

Yes, as someone who sees a Ukraine deal ending with local referendums, I do agree this is a real problem. If France invades the Channel Islands, displacing half the population, and a lot of French pe… (View Post)

Tokyo always had lots of masks before Covid, on the basis that they kept out pollution. There's a difference in cultural habit there - there's no iron law that wearing a mask when you go ou… (View Post)