NHS employment increases by another 19k in 2023q1: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable A total increase o… (View Post)

Certainly that would be the rational way of looking at the NHS. But millions of people look at the NHS in a religious rather than a rational way and for them inputs are more important than outputs. (View Post)

Petulance is rarely attractive, neither is is self-pity and neither is self-entitlement. Boris is wallowing in them all. I wonder if he realises how strong his position was and how he ruined it throu… (View Post)

Interesting contrast: Boris brought down over the party stupidity. Trump still going strong despite endless criminality and attempting to overthrown democracy. (View Post)

This was an interesting suggestion: Prior to the industrial revolution, war was the best way to get rich (if you won) because land and conquered subjects were so much more valuable than any kind of c… (View Post)