We had leading universities for decades without students having to pay for them. The change to student fees was a political/philosophical decision and not an inevitable one. (View Post)

Were they meant to? Taking him at face value, I understood that Hunt's intention with this budget was to get more people into work rather than necessarily making people feel immediately better o… (View Post)

When the pension age for men was set at 65 in 1925, average male life expectancy was 57. Life expectancy for men didn't exceed pension age until 1948. (View Post)

If you want to sort out the security of the ballot then do something about postal voting, not In Person ID fraud. But of course the Tories won't do anything about that because it would effect vo… (View Post)

Foraging can get over the top sometimes. I remembered this story from last year: https://www.cornish-times.co.uk/news/villagers-are-setting-up-patrols-in-lostwithiel-to-protect-its-wild-garlic-from-f… (View Post)