. For all that fishing became some kind of totemic battle, the elephant in the room was always that we don't want to eat "our" fish. We like to eat stuff that swims in other people… (View Post)

As always there will be multiple nuanced factors which bely the search for a simplistic solution and thus fix. Mental health? Absolutely. Physical health - a small number of poor sods are still beset… (View Post)

And this is why I try not to dismiss the lives of others out of hand. Not sure if you have ever done those kinds of jobs? I have. I've been a general dogsbody in a supermarket. Worked in a call … (View Post)

How is UBI the equalisation of incomes? Its the opposite - in paying everyone a basic income you free people. Enterprise is very hard to do these days - the costs of starting a business are prohibiti… (View Post)

We're likely to see some interesting polling after Starmer and von der Leyen announce Peace in Our Time. We can ignore the more excitable ones - people have moved on from "I'd rather e… (View Post)