'gold plated' is one of those political phrases that people always put in front of public sector pensions without thinking about it. (View Post)

Trump might hope for a happier precedent. The British don't have a good record with installing a Shah on an unwilling country: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War (View Post)

The law doesn't interfere with people trying to commit suicide. The police, NHS and every other organisation do though. (View Post)

Nope. I stopped giving my own view on the issue because lots of people were already doing that more eloquently than me. I considered it a better use of my time to point out relatively simple Parliame… (View Post)

My take on it is that an MP who cares very deeply about this issue saw their chance to change the law and took it. You could argue that this isn't the optimal way to deal with such an emotive issue b… (View Post)