Is it? Universities lose money on every home student they teach, because the government caps the fees at below-cost. For a while, the plan was to shimmy round that by bringing in lots of foreign stud… (View Post)

It used to be the case that National Liberals and Monday Clubbers could coexist in a single party. That tent was big enough to win far more often than not. Now, the right is doing the same People… (View Post)

That was roughly why the Olympics site was available, wasn't it? Which points to a solution, albeit one that doesn't scale well. Suspect the problem lies in trying to do the financial maths… (View Post)

Indeed. And some of that is lifestyle stuff, and some of it is because a lot of people are waiting so long for medical treatment. (View Post)

No, because the people who have created these mad processes are central government. What we are seeing now is the obvious endpoint of the Thatcher-Major reforms, which weren't repudiated by Blai… (View Post)