The mental health benefits of work are commonly overdone. Everyone's experience is different, of course, but most jobs aren't a vocation and a great many, perhaps most, are hard, boring, sh… (View Post)

Reports this morning of leaked Government plans to wind down the Covid response in the New Year. Apparently it's the intention to: *Axe the legal requirement for those who catch the virus to sel… (View Post)

I somehow doubt it. A Labour minority has everything to gain and nothing to lose from yielding as little as possible to Scottish Nationalism, and thus exposing it as ineffectual. Besides, the English… (View Post)

Putting it crudely, the one thing that nobody is prepared to do is to tell the population of the developed world to adopt horrid vegan diets - let alone lecturing dirt poor nomadic pastoralists about… (View Post)

Superficially Northern Ireland looks like the next Scotland, but in practice the political system there means that they're fundamentally different cases. If the Scottish Parliament laboured unde… (View Post)