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That's also much easier said then done. Many if not most people are scared to ride bikes or let their children do it because of the volume of dangerous traffic and bolshie motorists that are basicall… (View Post)

Precisely. Good health is so important to individual wellbeing, but it's also a real boon to the public purse. (View Post)

Ireland is a freeloader. It hides under Britain's skirts, emerging only occasionally to contrast its saintly impotence with the beastly behaviour of its bloodthirsty neighbour. To a degree this is li… (View Post)

About half of all healthcare spending goes on the over-65s. I don't have specific knowledge of how precisely that is broken down (one of our PB medics might venture an opinion) but I think the big &q… (View Post)

These conversations always come round to the colossal burden of an ageing society eventually. According to OBR figures from 2023 that I just dug up, spending on public sector pensions was already run… (View Post)