Ah, OK - there are almost always events on somewhere on a Sunday so I thought you might've been taking part in one. I get not wanting to go for it too hard - I worry about my ageing and increasingly … (View Post)

Console yourself with the fact that you are capable of running a marathon in the first place. I compete in ten milers and half-marathons but daren't move up. Certainly not with how stiff my knees are… (View Post)

On topic: the NHS continues to do quite a lot well, but will inevitably continue to deteriorate over time. Demands upon it will continue to grow and the people with the money to pay to keep healthcar… (View Post)

We're not going to find money for better elderly care without extracting the cash from the better-off elderly. Who else has it? Earned incomes are collapsing, so the money will have to come from asse… (View Post)

And yet it's clapped out, isn't it? Admittedly, some of this issue isn't to do with unwillingness to cough up for the NHS - it's also due to unwillingness to cough up for elderly care - but the gener… (View Post)