Basically gradual regression towards the 18th century - a stratified economy of paupers and rentiers, featuring a gentry class in which any lack of talent and ability on the part of the younger gener… (View Post)

That's completely right. One of the things I find most difficult to negotiate at work is the pointless targets for improvement that they try to foist on us every year (and everybody gets them, i… (View Post)

Define "not ambitious enough." If you're doing a job that you're good at, it's not particularly stressful and you're being paid enough to live reasonably comfortably, th… (View Post)

This is eminently possible, of course. If things carry on as they are then, eventually, local authorities will be able to afford to do nothing other than wipe the backsides of the demented, if they h… (View Post)

One suspects that there are some GPs who found being relieved of a constant conveyor belt of smelly patients trundling through their consulting rooms very welcome, and would rather not go back to the… (View Post)