An ageing population. A lot of the ambulance delays relate to inadequate social care. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9423059/ is a good summary. The causes of these increased waits are comp… (View Post)

Populism often hoovers up a certain online contrarianism and we see that with the populist right in the US going antivax with the appointment of RFK Jr. Reform UK are now going down the same path, wi… (View Post)

Sunak was better than Truss, Starmer than Sunak. (View Post)

He says he bought a house in Clacton: e.g. https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/clacton-mp-nigel-farage-said-9842675 He did not buy it: his girlfriend bought a house. Is that a lie or just a si… (View Post)

I think you can just pay for someone else and have their name on the deeds. (But if you died within 7 years, your gift would come under inheritance tax rules.) But I am not a tax advisor, nor do conv… (View Post)