Paramedics in England are unable to respond to 100,000 urgent 999 calls every month because they are stuck outside hospitals waiting to hand over patients, endangering thousands of lives, the Guardia… (View Post)

Exactly. Nobody wants to think about going gaga, and even if they do contemplate the risk they also believe it's up to someone else to pay for it, like they do with everything else. It makes it under… (View Post)

I'm assuming the question isn't about abandoning people's houses to burn over and over, but rather the wisdom of rebuilding in some of these places. It's rather like the idiocy of plonking new builds… (View Post)

Assuming that these areas are rebuilt at all. There's precious little point if the properties are uninsurable. (View Post)

Of course, what actually happened was that housing changed from being simply somewhere to live into an investment and a commodity, with catastrophic consequences for the entire country. Low earnings … (View Post)