“Nuclear Option”. Jesus wept. Energy prices have tripled (& then doubled again for commercial customers) & Truss thinks a 5% discount is going to fix everything? (View Post)

We didn’t even bother waiting when our youngest needed a minor operation recently. Waiting list was enormous - no appointments available at all at any of the centres we were referred to for months on… (View Post)

Lots of difficult land, close together cities which means lots of expensive land to compulsory purchase? (As an aside to the figures above, I wonder what the price of French high speed rail per km wo… (View Post)

Mostly money, but also simply our government not taking the railways seriously. I’ve been told that the Major government drove one of our train manufacturing businesses into bankruptcy in the 90s? Th… (View Post)

The Fringe hosted the Puppetry of the Penis guys for years. So long as everyone involved knows that willy waving may be involved & has the choice to be there or not, taking offence at that seems … (View Post)