That's an exaggeration but mental health does suffer from the same care lottery issue as the rest of the health service. Some conditions are well dealt with, in other areas the system is buckling and… (View Post)

The Government is making its life harder with its mistakes, but it was always going to become very unpopular. They either fail to pay for important stuff, in which case all the people who receive or … (View Post)

There is never a good moral case for brutality. (View Post)

The Tories are very weak and discredited, Labour is accident prone and timid, Reform are repellent to much of the electorate and as much in danger of falling to pieces as any other radical party, and… (View Post)

And this might not have ended in a dumpster fire if she, (and her successors, to be fair: New Labour exhibited no interest in addressing the matter) had bothered to replace the council houses. All Ma… (View Post)