And that's the problem. Something can be the wrong thing to do by all sorts of metrics- practical, financial, legal, moral- and still being the right thing to do politically. And if the public want s… (View Post)

Given the strength of the placebo effect, the patients may well have a point. (View Post)

Most people think that taxes should be paid by other people. (View Post)

You are very kind to assume that all the racists have brains they bother to use. Still, all those who assumed that this story turned on immigration (they know who they are) were sort of right. (View Post)

Especially if we were negotiating the cost of hiring the Tesco negotiators with the Tesco negotiators. (There must be an updated Gilbert and Sullivan plot in there somewhere.) (View Post)