The annoying thing is that issues such as inequality, unaffordable housing, cost of living, deprivation in touristy areas are all worth learning about. But France24 really tried to turn everything up… (View Post)

The BBC's exit poll in 1987 predicted a Conservative majority of only 26: https://youtu.be/bVahD8xWoxo?t=130 Actual result a majority of over 100. A bigger mistake than in 1992 but because it st… (View Post)

Likewise Canada: On a Thursday in mid-August, the doors of a hospital's emergency department two hours west of Toronto were shut. A note posted on the front said the ER was closed for the day. I… (View Post)

Amazingly other European countries have been unable to wave a magic wand at their health systems: For decades, western Europe’s national healthcare systems have been widely touted as among the best i… (View Post)

So you cannot explain how Labour (or anyone else) is going to wave this magic wand and turn 'a disaster about to collapse' back into 'the envy of the world'. Not that it was '… (View Post)