Grim and grisly paradox. The more we make the state efficient, by withdrawing services from those who are comfortable enough to not need them, the worse the cost: benefit analysis looks for most vote… (View Post)

If you think that one of the UK's problems is that employers would rather throw cheap bodies at problems than spend on training or automation, then taxing such employment more might help. (I gue… (View Post)

But also... A generation who can get to their mid-to-late fifties having done enough to make enough to not need to work for the money. The satisfaction of exercising a talent, doing good in the world… (View Post)

After all, political Life is a Rollercoaster. (View Post)

Had we started with one of the variants, rather than classic COVID, that would have been interesting. Or if it had debuted a couple of decades earlier. Basically, we were pretty fortunate that vaccin… (View Post)