Generally agree with you. But is it a given that if you prevented the wealthy buying cancer drugs privately it would make them any more available on the NHS? That is a genuine question not an asserti… (View Post)

And he then gets accused of queue jumping. He should have just said he used private medical care and had nothing to apologise for. (View Post)

I would very much dispute the idea that the ECML service is unusable. It is a very good service. I think the problem with Sunak in both these instances is more fundamental. Basically he wouldn't… (View Post)

One other point I like is that the British military swear allegiance to the monarch (and through them to the people) not the Government of the day. (View Post)

Not so. They embody the nation separated from politics. Any elected head of state is inevitably an overtly political figure and as such is a source of division rather than unity. This is a powerful f… (View Post)