The proximate answer to these kinds of failings is, most likely, that there are too many patients chasing too few doctors, and that the doctors are therefore incapable of dealing with their workload … (View Post)

There is only so far even the Conservative Party can get with populism when the great mass of the people is getting noticeably poorer. Proposing, for arguments' sake, to solve the Channel migrant cri… (View Post)

Both a fiddle of the price cap and this wacky scheme involving GP surgeries have something important in common: to find some fix that doesn't involve either doing nothing (mass deaths and rioting) or… (View Post)

The food bank system is f**ked. One of the first things that middle class donors will do when they have to start tightening their own belts is stop giving. Indeed, reports suggest that this has alrea… (View Post)

That's right. Only fit for the sewer but can't even get rid of them that way. I'm going to try to make it my business to predict a bone dry Winter at every opportunity. It is the surest way to attrac… (View Post)