The same way that the “Publicans” in the Bible are not innkeepers at all. I’m not sure that inns (as we, or even medieval people) would understand them, would have been a thing, in that time and plac… (View Post)

Real household incomes have risen in line with GDP per capita. At a guess I would say you can reconcile the numbers through (a) more people being in work (the employment rate was about 70% in 2008, c… (View Post)

Ineffectual governments will often poke their opponents in the eye. I think this is completely trivial, just a piece of nastiness. (View Post)

That is certainly true, as well. (View Post)

The BMA is like the scorpion in the fable of the scorpion and the frog. No sooner do they get a government to their liking, than they stab it in the back, because it's in their nature. (View Post)